# Seeing one year old posts with today's date

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**Created:** [February 14, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-one-year-old-posts-with-todays-date/959436 "2022-02-14T05:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-one-year-old-posts-with-todays-date/959436/7 "2022-02-14T16:10:20Z")

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I think that’s it; right now, [this post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/526) is showing 'Feb ‘21’, having crossed the year-mark half an hour ago, while the following one, which is an hour younger, shows as ‘Feb 14’:  
[![](https://i.ibb.co/wyr4mdV/Date-Issue.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/wyr4mdV/Date-Issue.png)

So the solution should be to just use whole days for the switchover between the date formats. (Or use a different, less confusing date format…)

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