I almost ignored this entire article because I didn't see a date at the top of the blog. No date on a blog is the first sign of something fishy. But scrolling

I almost ignored this entire article because I didn't see a date at the top of the blog. No date on a blog is the first sign of something fishy. But scrolling all the way down, you can see there's a published date. Weird place to put the date. Is this something new?