# Displaying dates of posts - mixed formats make it hard to read
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-dates-of-posts-mixed-formats-make-it-hard-to-read/32659
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [8월 28, 2015, 6:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-dates-of-posts-mixed-formats-make-it-hard-to-read/32659 "2015-08-28T18:18:57Z")
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### Author:  [@xcambar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xcambar)
#### Post date: [8월 28, 2015, 6:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-dates-of-posts-mixed-formats-make-it-hard-to-read/32659/1 "2015-08-28T18:18:58Z")
Hi,
I would like to gather some feedback about how the date of a post is displayed.
2Here’s the thing:
- A post from the current year has its date displayed “Jun 12”.
- A post from past years has its date displayed as “Jun '12”.
For those who haven’t spotted the difference, there’s an extra extra apostrophe in the second date - `Jun '12`.
Maybe it’s just me, but it took me an insane amount of time to distinguish both. And when skimming through a list of posts on an instance where dates do matter (as in [discuss.emberjs.org](http://discuss.emberjs.org) where I noticed it), it takes a lot of time and requires extra effort to separate the readable from the outdated.
I would love to hear from the community before jumping into the code 😄
So… what do you think?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [8월 28, 2015, 6:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-dates-of-posts-mixed-formats-make-it-hard-to-read/32659/2 "2015-08-28T18:22:15Z")
This topic already exists
> [@Change to DD Mmm / Mmm 'YY for post dates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-to-dd-mmm-mmm-yy-for-post-dates/13625):
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> Quick! Which of these two is older? [image] [image] Errr… Oh! The one with the apostrophe! Took you a second, didn’t it? I took an impromptu poll on IRC to confirm this: \ riking\_: it doesnt say if its feb 2013 or 13th of feb etc \ the '13 would suggest 2013 tho (after getting it wrong) \ I thought Feb didn'th ave the apostrophe \ no \ it was definitely jan ??, 13 I think that the date formats, even for English, should be changed to DD Mmm (so 13 Jan) and Mmm '…
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### Author:  [@xcambar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xcambar)
#### Post date: [8월 28, 2015, 6:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-dates-of-posts-mixed-formats-make-it-hard-to-read/32659/3 "2015-08-28T18:43:43Z")
Thanks. Couldn’t find it for some reason.
I’ll try to have a better look next time 😉
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [8월 28, 2015, 7:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-dates-of-posts-mixed-formats-make-it-hard-to-read/32659/4 "2015-08-28T19:24:08Z")