# Show year properly in dates on posts

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-year-properly-in-dates-on-posts/198037>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-year-properly-in-dates-on-posts/198037 "2019-09-04T11:26:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikewillis)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-year-properly-in-dates-on-posts/198037/1 "2019-09-04T11:26:34Z")

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Dates on posts are sometimes shown as something like `Apr '16` or `Jul '18`.

Initially I thought that the number was a date, because my eyes missed the `'`. And then I wondered what year that post was in. Better usability could be achieve by showing the years properly. `2016` instead of `'16`. It's only one more character and so much clearer.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-year-properly-in-dates-on-posts/198037/2 "2019-09-04T20:42:07Z")

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Great suggestion! I've changed that now so let us know how that looks.

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**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikewillis)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-year-properly-in-dates-on-posts/198037/3 "2019-09-10T08:40:47Z")

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Looks good, thanks. (Though it was actaully quite hard to find a post more than a year old to look at when I wanted to because these forums don't do pagination of post threads. it's impossible to easily and quickly skip to older posts when the list just scrolls for ever and ever.)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-year-properly-in-dates-on-posts/198037/4 "2019-10-08T08:41:47Z")

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