Open letter to all developers with blogs

Re:Open letter to all developers with blogs by jolmg on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:26PM (#21205488)

One of my pet peeves with HN. Eventually, every post ends up as "X years ago". I wish I knew when in that year.

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Re:Open letter to all developers with blogs by capableweb on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:39PM (#21206446)

Hm, HN seems to show the exact year for me, see https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-10-08 and this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243

Or the top voted story on Oct 8, 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795

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Re:Open letter to all developers with blogs by jolmg on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:53PM (#21207234)

You're right. The issue is with months. Once it gets to a year, HN shows the date. It's not as bad as I mistakenly recalled/extrapolated.

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Re:Open letter to all developers with blogs by reitzensteinm on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:12PM (#21209959)

I'm pretty sure it used to just show eg "3 years ago". I was surprised to read the exact date in the above.

Created used to show the number of days (I remember passing 3650), and now it shows the date. So the change was within the last year.

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Re:Open letter to all developers with blogs by jolmg on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:44PM (#21219488)

Thank you for giving me hope in my memory. Checking the Wayback Machine, it seems that putting absolute dates was a change that came some time after 2017. In 2017, HN post id=1 was dated "4027 days ago"[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171019104348/https://news.ycom...

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