I don’t have rights in this instance to see exactly what he typed to get that effect, but… I’m thinking maybe never sub-in relative dates (yesterday, today, tomorrow).
Because this introduces real ambiguity. Did he mean
“yesterday” when he posted 3d ago?
is this today’s “yesterday”?
is he a time traveler and where is the blue police box?
It is following setting relative date duration, isn’t it?
The way how anglos are seeing time and date is very confusing indeed, but such relative ones are always against current and reader’s subjective time. Or is out there places where the situation is different?
Edit: oh, I missed that 3d vs yesterday totally. Yes, that is confusing.