# Change to DD Mmm / Mmm 'YY for post dates

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2014年三月11日 05:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625 "2014-03-11T05:44:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [2015年八月30日 16:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625/23 "2015-08-30T16:57:53Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Seriously? 2013? The century has to be in there? The part that’s going to be the same for a hundred years?

I think @erlend_sh’s response to this concern is pretty spot-on:

> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> It’s a prefix of 20 to express year as opposed to '. It’s a 1 character difference, and it leaves no room for confusion.

Plus, more often than not you’re reading new stuff from the latest page. So first, you don’t get barraged with the extra character all the time anyway. And second, since you get well trained to see things as MM DD.

So seeing MM YYYY when you get to an old post is a good call-out that these post are different than what you’re used to seeing.

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