# Make topic dates be full dates

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-topic-dates-be-full-dates/201342
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-topic-dates-be-full-dates/201342 "2021-08-22T16:52:55Z")
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### Author: ![OverseersMight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/overseersmight/32/228719_2.png) [@OverseersMight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OverseersMight)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-topic-dates-be-full-dates/201342/1 "2021-08-22T16:52:55Z")

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How would I go about changing the date displayed to a full date, for example: August '15 for a post in 2015 turns into August 7th, 2015.  
Couldn’t find a setting for this.

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### Author: ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-topic-dates-be-full-dates/201342/2 "2021-08-22T18:28:14Z")

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Hi there,

You can do it with css, target the title attribute like this.

Paste this to `/admin/customize/themes` components tab in a new component css section. I think in desktop view it will be ok but on mobile or smaller screens it could cause problems.

```plaintext
.post-info.post-date {
  a span[title] {
    visibility: hidden;
    &:after {
      content: attr(title);
      visibility: visible;
    }
  }
}

```

It will looks like this format.  
 ![Screenshot 2021-08-22 at 20.24.01](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/3/036ac332d7ef2cf5f6a5081caf18ec83666b1812.png)

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### Author: ![OverseersMight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/overseersmight/32/228719_2.png) [@OverseersMight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OverseersMight)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-topic-dates-be-full-dates/201342/3 "2021-08-22T18:40:35Z")

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Thank you so much, this works on both mobile and desktop.  
If anyone thinks the title is unclear, please make sure to tell me (or just change it) so anyone else that wants to know can find this.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-topic-dates-be-full-dates/201342/4 "2021-09-21T18:40:50Z")

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