But that’s wrong. A freestanding number is NEVER the day of the month. Those always have the name of the month next to them. As I write this posts from yesterday say “Sep 23”. They NEVER say just “23”.
I agree that the apostrophe on a shortened year number is easy to overlook. But the 3-letter month abbreviation is hard to overlook. If there isn’t a month in words, then the number you see is a year. Always and everywhere.
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 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.
That’s because I don’t know what I’m talking about. D’oh!
I had recalled that very old posts just showed '17 = the year and only the year.
You’re correct that they actually show Sep '17 = month and year.
So the only difference between e.g. 3 years ago Sep '17 and 2 weeks ago Sep 17 is the tiny ’
Exactly as you say. I thought sure I’d seen the '17 format before but now I can’t locate an example. Sorry!
I’ve also come across cases like that, and read the date incorrectly at first.
It’s very easy to miss that apostrophe when 99% of the dates you look at are in the current year.
If the year is not the current year, it should always be shown in full. Sep 2017, not Sep '17.
But if there IS a month in words, then the number you see might be a year anyway.
Basically, a post from a few days ago might be dated Sep 17, while a post from a few years ago might be dated Sep '17.
Do you really not see a problem with that?
Keep reading.
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