question for anyone

[bobbyp28]

just curious why the “date” of any of these many posts is not shown at the top/title of each separate post? I would prefer to know if I am reading something fairly current or many years old. Perhaps I am missing something. Many thx!

[BobD Volunteer]

It gives you the number of hours, days years etc ago. I often get responses to posts I made five years ago or more. If calendar dates are what you want then I'm sure you can work it out but why?

[bobbyp28 in reply to BobD]

Why. Because it would be so darn “simple” to “state the date” vs saying “1 year ago”

[BenHall1]

on my phone while it doesn't show date it shows time from posting. So your post is showing as being posted 54 minutes ago.

Agree with BobD's post.

[Speed]

As comments above. What I’m interested in is how recent / current / relevant the thread is and if it had instead the origination date, I’d be working out how old the post was.

[jeanjeannie50]

It's always states how long it's been on the forum underneath the heading of the post you're reading.

[Thomas45]

Well bobbyp28, I can see that you posted 16 hours ago, which was about 4pm British Summer Time, and earlier than that for you depending on which time zone you're in.I get a daily summary of all posts for 3 medical conditions I have. I can of course search for a topic and the system will tell me how old the post is.

I think knowing how old a post is, in this discussion board, is probably better than knowing its exact date. Which date would that be, the local date or the British date? It would be confusing..