# Show detailed timestamp for posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-detailed-timestamp-for-posts/126799>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-detailed-timestamp-for-posts/126799 "2019-08-26T00:30:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pdecat/32/163638_2.png) [@pdecat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pdecat)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-detailed-timestamp-for-posts/126799/4 "2019-12-11T11:43:35Z")

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This is so much desired when Discourse is used in technical contexts (e.g. Openwrt forum) and the posts dates matter a lot to quickly identify outdated content in long running threads! I would want to be able to change this from my user profile and not require each Discourse admin to change anything.

For the time being, I use the following bookmarklet to get full dates whenever I feel there’s ambiguity:

```plaintext
javascript:(function(){Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.getElementsByClassName("relative-date"), function(el) { el.innerText = el.title });})();

```

+1 for the suggestion about at least using full year, it is especially important for users in regions where year abbreviation is not a thing (France in my case).

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