With the passing of time, information is leaking away

Ben Blom

Imagine looking at a pile of old newspapers, and that their dates would have been replaced by just the month. That would be weird. This is what happens here.

I think that the removal of date and time from the contributions of this forum, is unfortunate, because in this way, information disappears which might be useful.

• It might be easier to understand (or to "place in time-context") a discussion, when the date and time info of its contributions would still be present. It can make a big difference if the time distance between two contributions is 5 minutes, or 20 days. And it can make a difference to be able to see this.
  
• When the date and time info would stay with a contribution, it would be possible to use date and time to refer to it.
  

At other forums, the date and time info stays with a contribution. If possible, I would suggest to do the same here too.

James Puckett

I’m looking into this.

Dave Crossland

Did you resolve this?

Stephen Coles

Wow, I didn’t realize that was happening. I’ve put in a support request. In the meantime you can see the exact day and time of any post by hovering over the date link, but obviously that’s not ideal.

attar

If you hover over the date stamp of the post, you can see it in full on a tooltip.

Edit: oops, the post above me says it already, soz.

Mark Simonson

Hiding stuff under a hover doesn't work for touch-based devices, btw.

attar

> Hiding stuff under a hover doesn't work for touch-based devices, btw.

Agreed, I almost mentioned that. It’s the same for post flagging.

Dave Crossland

Thanks Stephen!!