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

• capableweb 7y ago
  Hm, HN seems to show the exact year for me, see https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-10-08 and this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243 Or the top voted story on Oct 8, 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795
  • jolmg 7y ago
    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.
    • reitzensteinm 7y ago
      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.
      • jolmg 7y ago
        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.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20171019104348/https://news.ycom...