# Post date display **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [November 20, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-date-display/246190 "2022-11-20T13:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Loki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Loki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Loki)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-date-display/246190/1 "2022-11-20T13:26:13Z")
The date of posts are displayed using an apostrophe to indicate a year and no apostrophe to indicate a day of the month (Apr '18 is April of 2018, while Apr 18 is April 18th of this year). We get fairly frequent complaints from our users that it is hard to see or notice the apostrophe. This is especially true on mobile and for new users who are not familiar with the date format. It sure would be great if we had a site settings option to display the year as four digits instead of with the apostrophe. It would seem that replacing the apostrophe with two digits would not create any great formatting problems. What do you think? Is this something that might be accomplished? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-date-display/246190)._