All the more so when the value of the observation depends so much on the timeframe involved and the article does not explicitly state when the event happened. S

All the more so when the value of the observation depends so much on the timeframe involved and the article does not explicitly state when the event happened. Sure, the article is dated 9th November 2023 and it is referring to something that happened on All Saints Day — which hopefully the reader will know is 1st November. But was it 1st November 2023 or 1st November 2003? It was indeed 2023. Was it so hard to say "Over the following week, all the books were returned.? Not only does it provide more information, but it even makes the story more compelling that the uninformative and useless "to date"!