# How to change the post data from relative data to absolute

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**Created:** [May 12, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-post-data-from-relative-data-to-absolute/365700 "2025-05-12T09:33:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-post-data-from-relative-data-to-absolute/365700/13 "2025-05-22T00:39:27Z")

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Welcome back. @aksoforever!

How are you getting on with this? Can you tell us some more about your use case?

Why would you want to impose such long, absolute dates on your members? The “time ago” dates are quite friendly on the eye and convey the information you need to know how old a post is. Mousing over it shows you the explicit timestamp.

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