Please add year to date field (redux)

July 24, 2002 11:40 AM

How about including the year along with the date info on posts? This post got two new hits today, but we wouldn't know that if Ufez hadn't used the words "three years later".
posted by whatnot to Feature Requests at 11:40 AM (12 comments total)

whoops, I mean comments. as in "two new comments".
posted by whatnot at 11:41 AM on July 24, 2002

Well, cult threads wouldn't look as cute, then
posted by matteo at 11:48 AM on July 24, 2002

Boredom at work can be a bitch. I chose my words carefully on purpose, just b/c I had noticed in the past that there was no year date on things. I just wanted to see if anyone else went back and read those, and if so, how carefully. I still find it cool that after three years the link still works, though. Not the case with many older threads.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:50 AM on July 24, 2002

soon you won't be able to add new comments to posts more than a month old and this requested feature will be moot.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:10 PM on July 24, 2002

That makes sense. Sorry if I broke an implicit taboo, matt.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:13 PM on July 24, 2002

Thank you, mathowie. next!
posted by whatnot at 12:56 PM on July 24, 2002

The community will now punish this broken taboo. Tar and feathers? Tied naked on an anthill? Does anyone have the scroll?

Still, I always thought that if it were any year but the present, it should be displayed. Some environments allow you to specify that as part of the date template.
posted by dhartung at 1:23 PM on July 24, 2002

soon you won't be able to add new comments to posts more than a month old and this requested feature will be moot.

so that implies that follow-ups will be new threads, no?
posted by machaus at 1:30 PM on July 24, 2002

*runs over to thread 19 to make her mark before it's too late*
posted by precocious at 2:41 PM on July 24, 2002

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, 1142. Thy days be numbered!
posted by Danelope at 3:06 PM on July 24, 2002

And suddenly all the cult threads are clamouring for attention when I'm sorting by "my comments". Look there's little "metafilter parody, no comment from me..." and "Now this is something I just don't get...". Ah, bless their little cotton comments, they're all grows up.
posted by MUD at 3:32 PM on July 24, 2002

soon you won't be able to add new comments to posts more than a month old and this requested feature will be moot.

Doh, does this mean that great threads like the famous 1142 will no longer be allowed to be posted in? If so, I might want to get my 2 cents in over there before you shut it down. Also, It may take a while to go through the 1600+ comments on that post before I get to posting.
posted by thebwit at 4:44 PM on July 24, 2002