# 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:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-posted-is-easily-confused-with-year-posted/921075/4 "2020-09-20T14:29:57Z")

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I made the same point several months ago.

> [@Post date format](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-date-format/913341):
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> Could we change the date format on posts, please. It should show full day month and year. Preferably time, too. Here’s an example of the problem. This recently resurrected thread [Someone explain Kent Hovind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-kent-hovind/543723) originally from 2010. Early posts are dated as Jun '10. Recent posts are dated as Jun 9 and Jun 10. It’s confusing. And let’s keep the month as a word, not a number. It avoids the usual ambiguity of day/month vs month/day.

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