Questions tagged [timestamps]
Where the topic is the identification of when an event occurred as shown by notices and in tooltips upon hovering over such notices.
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Comment times are hidden/inaccessible when over a year old
There is a feature-request for this, but I'm actually raising this as a bug, as I'm not asking for a feature; the feature exists already (and will continue to on every other site that isn't Stack ...
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Can we not do "Over a year ago" please?
In the new comment layout experiment (2025), comments are being labelled with "Over a year ago" instead of the actual date. Why would you seek to hide this information? In my opinion it's ...
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Discussion replies don't have a timestamp tooltip
Replies in Discussions don't have a tooltip when you hover over them to get the actual time the reply was made.
You can see in this image, no tooltip is displayed to denote what time "1h ago"...
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Timestamps below question titles are not specific enough
I just noticed a little thing regarding the timestamps below a question's title.
When a question is posted mere moments ago, it shows as "today":
(This screenshot was made seconds after ...
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How to see time of recent posts
I recently came across a new answer to an old question whose time is shown as 23 hours ago. I can see the precise time of the older answers on the same page: answered Feb 14 at 1:30, etc.
How do we ...
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Why did dates such as "December 31 '21" become "December 31 2021"?
In the past, dates from previous years were shown like Month Day '<last 2 digits of year>, such as December 31 '21.
However, now the four digit date number has been spelled out, like December 31 ...
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Consider the client's time zone when showing time under the questions
Let's explain an issue that I have:
I have asked a question two days ago (2022-01-23 13:00:11Z) and now (2021-01-25 08:04:00Z), when I open the question, I am seeing the following information:
Asked ...
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Fixing timestamp description in review suspension window when the suspension period is over
I had recently been suspended from reviewing, but the suspension period was over yesterday. I had the suspension window open from previous days and noticed a funny message about when I will be able to ...
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Inconsistent date rounding
In some contexts in the site, a date is shown as "happened x <time units> ago". For example on post notices for closing or deleting.
Today I encountered a weird inconsistency in this ...
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Ask/answer date for community wiki posts should always be shown in the "owner" (rightmost) user card/user info
I just noticed that the "asked" and "answered" datetimes for Community Wiki questions:
(from .NET: bool vs enum as a method parameter)
And answers:
(from How to loop through ...
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Will an edit during the grace period update the original creation timestamp?
Every now and then it happens that two users answer almost at the same time and the answer also is almost identical.
This happened just to my answer.
When I was answering there of course was no ...
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Why do comment timestamps no longer update unless the page is reloaded?
The timestamps in comments on Stack Overflow have stopped updating unless the page is refreshed (at least for me). I noticed this several week ago and have been on Meta several times searching for a ...
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how is it possible that an answer come before question? [duplicate]
in some questions, like this:
Deletion of copy-ctor & copy-assignment - public, private or protected?
you can see that the question was asked in 2019, but somehow there is an answer in 2017. the ...
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Someone answered a question 9 years ago, but the profile shows "member for 4 months" [closed]
Looking at this answer one can see that it was written in Sep 2010, but when clicking on the answerer link it shows the profile of a member who has been a "Member for 4 months".
How could someone ...
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Apparent timestamp inconsistency on asked questions
When I look for questions with certain tags, I see questions that have a recent timestamp for when they were asked. But quite often I know this question by this user was asked much earlier (sometimes ...
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