# It's hard to see the difference between "Oct 17" and "Oct '17" **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 20, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-hard-to-see-the-difference-between-oct-17-and-oct-17/923377 "2020-10-20T02:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-hard-to-see-the-difference-between-oct-17-and-oct-17/923377/2 "2020-10-20T02:41:20Z")
People have been complaining about this for several months. > [@Date posted is easily confused with year posted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-posted-is-easily-confused-with-year-posted/921075): > > I was going to post this earlier but didn’t in case it was just me. But then someone just bumped a thread by mistake from 2014 because they read “April '14” as “April 14”. Would it be hard to change it to a format like “April 2014” when it is more than a year old so that it is harder to make this mistake? I know I always have to look close for the apostrophe and now I know I am not alone in this. > [@Post date format](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-date-format/913341): > > 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. No response on it, though. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-hard-to-see-the-difference-between-oct-17-and-oct-17/923377)._