# When merge posts add timestamp

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-merge-posts-add-timestamp/136756>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 21, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-merge-posts-add-timestamp/136756 "2019-12-21T05:35:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marcp/32/160184_2.png) [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-merge-posts-add-timestamp/136756/1 "2019-12-21T05:35:09Z")

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I hope this is not hard to implement. I would like to have merged posts add the timestamp. This would make merged posts more clear.  
An optional function would be to automatically merge posts this way if it’s a double post, for non-mods/admin.

**Example** :

Post text one

Added after 2 minutes:

Merged post text two