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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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To detect outdated pages (for ...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:
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Relative precision
0 seconds <= ...
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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
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Wrong wording on date based hat descriptions
The Bûche de Noël hat description says
Ask, answer, or vote ±12h from Dec 25, 0:00 UTC
and Where in the World is similarly worded.
However, I already got the hat while it's only 10:55 UTC as I'm ...
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Date format and calendar widget for site analytics page don't use site locale
There are US date format and calendar for site analytics page on StackOverflow in Russian (I'm guessing that the same exist for other non-English StackExchange sites but I don't have 25k reputation ...
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The date display for the current year is ambiguous. Please fix it [duplicate]
Screenshot of this answer.
It says "Jan 11".
Is that Jan 11th of this year? Or January of 2011? I have been on Stack Overflow since 2008 and I have no idea when Seasoned Advice started, so ...
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