Can we have years, please?

November 10, 2001 8:18 AM

Threads are identified with a day and month, but not a year. Now that there are a couple years' worth of archive, it happens that people link to an older thread from a previous year, and when one goes to that page, all we see is something like "March 30." In many cases, placing the thread in its proper timeframe is extremely relevant. Is there any way to mark these with the year so that we know if we are dealing with March 30, 2001, March 30, 2000, March 30, 1999? This will only become more of a problem as the years go by.
posted by rushmc to Feature Requests at 8:18 AM (6 comments total)

as the years go by

ah...this made my day, it did. And the idea behind it.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:07 AM on November 10, 2001

Cue fooljay ==>
posted by rodii at 9:28 AM on November 10, 2001

Good one, rushmc. I got nothin' to add this time but I support the thought.
posted by ZachsMind at 10:34 AM on November 10, 2001

Done.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:02 PM on November 10, 2001

*unison oohing and aahing from impressed MeFi hordes*
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:12 PM on November 10, 2001

[Never one to shirk my responsibility and the call to arms...]

This has been mentioned before (and many other times since), but of course without a requested feature list, it's tough to know that without an exhaustive search.

Note: I'm not attacking you, I'm just re-prompting Matt for a requested feature list
posted by fooljay at 3:18 PM on November 10, 2001