Kurzes Datumsformat bei alten Beiträgen: YYYY vs 'YY

[JammyDodger]

Im Laufe der Jahre gab es hierzu einige Themen, obwohl der aktuelle Konsens zu sein scheint, dass Websites dies nach eigenem Ermessen anpassen.

Interessante Lektüre jedoch:

Change to DD Mmm / Mmm 'YY for post dates

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: <ii> riking_: it doesnt say if its feb 2013 or 13th of feb etc <ii> the '13 would suggest 2013 tho (after getting it wrong) <culex> I thought Feb didn'th ave the apostrophe <Malqua> no <Malqua> 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 '…

Displaying dates of posts - mixed formats make it hard to read

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…

Year should be added to post date at some point

I can see why you wouldn’t think of this until a year in, but now the problem is obvious. I just ran into a post from February 2013, but looking at the date I first thought “oh, this is super recent, how did I miss it?” [image]

Year format on abbreviated post dates not clear

The current date format used on posts is not clear at a glance. It can be difficult to determine if a post happened last month or last year. For example, the two posts below: [image] [image] Looking carefully, you can see that the first is from April 2014 and the second is from April 14. However, at a quick glance, this distinction is unclear. I believe that it would improve the UX if the year format were expanded to show the full year, instead of using the apostrophe format.

Add full year to date to make them less visually confusing

This might be just me, but I find that I’m often confused by the short date notation in posts: the notation of a year (Mar '15) is visually really close to the notation of a date (Mar 15). I tend to overlook the apostrophe and assume that a post is one or more years old, making me less interested in it. My suggestion is to change the years to a full year (Mar 2017) - making it impossible to confuse the two.