Questions tagged [dates]
For questions about how dates are handled within the Stack Exchange network. General questions about dates are off-topic, most programming questions about dates belong on Stack Overflow.
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Don't mix up relative time with absolute times in the edit history
Edit history contains both relative times and absolute times. Example from https://superuser.com/posts/1926628/revisions (mirror): Proposal: Don't mix up relative time with absolute times in the edit ...
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Improve the wording about the election start date in the template for Question Collection questions
There are two elections coming up early July, and here are the Question Collection questions posted on their meta sites: 2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection (Astronomy.SE) 2025 ...
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Why are “asked” and “closed” dates rounded differently?
I recently asked a question on InformationSecurity Meta, because I’d observed a particular question that was apparently closed a month before it was asked. From a mod there, I found out that the “...
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How is it determined whether or not to display the year an achievement was earned? It seems inconsistent
What I would expect is that any date within the current calendar year would display with day/month only, while all dates from previous years would have the full day/month/year format. This is not ...
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Saved Lists sorted by Activity doesn't display when the latest activity occurred
Lists of Saves can be sorted by: Score, Activity, Views, Newest, or Added. The sorting of the posts seems to work fine, but... For example, if sorted by Activity, the list shows when the posts were ...
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On the 'Activity' page, inconsistent dates are given for the creation of tag-wikis/excerpts
When on my profile, and going to Activity > All Actions > Posts, I can see a list of all the posts I've ever made listed in chronological order. Here, tag-wikis and tag-excerpts are also ...
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No dates in search results for community wiki post
Searching for regular (non-wiki) posts results with a list of posts with visible dates (asked, answered...): If you do search for wiki posts there're no dates at all: Could we please add dates for ...
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Please add the last update date to each page in the Help Center
Some help pages are site-specific. In particular, on non-English sites, the content of help pages is written (translated) obviously later than the original sources. To detect outdated pages (for ...
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Upcoming events are not updating correctly
Recently we had a Moderators election 2023. I left the browser tab opened for a while and when I returned I saw that it said: "ends in 2 hours ago" which is wrong, there must be something ...
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Add tooltip with exact timestamp to 'Data updated ... ago' label on SEDE homepage
Can we add a tooltip with the exact UTC timestamp to the 'Data updated ... ago' label on the SEDE homepage? It would help indicating whether the refresh was slow (as it was today) or even incomplete. ...
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How many months in year? [duplicate]
Just found the question asked 1 year ago, and modified 12 months ago: It looks weird.
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Please change month number to month name in https://meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators
In https://meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators, the dates of appointment are mentioned like this: appointed 6/15/2021 I was kinda confused about the date format as my country follows DD/MM/...
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Years in dates will now display with all four digits
We have released an update to the way in which we render dates in the UI across the network. Up until now, whenever a date that included the year was rendered (which would typically be for dates ...
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Make the precision of display ages and dates/times consistent, regardless of their age
Currently, the way that the ages and dates/times are displayed is inconsistent, and it would be beneficial to make them consistent: Age Display Example Precison Relative precision 0 seconds <= age &...
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Editing Year missing for community edited post [duplicate]
Editing Year missing to community edited post Edited Year Missing link But Tooltips Show Year Generally Year Present question link answer link