# Date posted is easily confused with year posted

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**Created:** [September 20, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-posted-is-easily-confused-with-year-posted/921075 "2020-09-20T12:25:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-posted-is-easily-confused-with-year-posted/921075/22 "2020-09-24T23:45:01Z")

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I’m not understanding what you’re saying. The only difference **on this website** is a little tick mark next to the [date]/[year] which differentiates the two, for instance [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-a-thread-become-a-candidate-for-zombification/83153) which has time field containing “Mar '19”. Here, some posts say “Sep 20”. Both are three letter abbreviations of months, followed by a blank, followed by an optional tick mark, followed by one or two numbers. No free-standing numbers involved.

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