I've always hated relative dates. Glad people are finally coming to their senses. The only case I see for relative dates are that they are more user friendly.

I've always hated relative dates. Glad people are finally coming to their senses. The only case I see for relative dates are that they are more user friendly. But is it really that hard to parse "Wednesday, August 22nd at 8:22PM"? While I believe in easy to use interfaces, we don't have to act like our users are total bafoons either. In the long run relative dates are more confusing for screenshots, leaving a page open, etc as stated in the post.