When you’re not logged in, it will say eg. “4 years ago”, when you are, it will display a more precise date, but omit the year, so you can never really know what eg. a September 9th is… Would be super nice to see the year in the long date format.
Here are the logged out and logged in screenshots:
Rebixx (asura necro) in Vabbi WvW and HoT
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Likely won’t happen as they really can’t make changes to the forums.
It’s very much possible to know exactly when a post was made through very quick and easy math.
There’s no math involved with actual timestamp display, but there’s missing information then.
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You can change which format used by clicking on the time stamp display (time passed or date). You can get the year of the post by mousing over the time stamp display (when using date format). If the year doesn’t show up, just refresh the page.
Good luck.
Even that is buggy, actually
- When you load a post, there will be no tooltip. So refreshing actually breaks it.
- If you click on it (no matter how many times), the tooltip will contain the long format for the date, which in English is sadly “Mon Dth, HH24:MI”, without the year part anywhere.
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Okay, even better: it sometimes displays the year, but not consistently and I have no idea when it does. After taking a look at the German forums (where the long date format even includes the day of the week), and coming back, now I get a tooltip that has 2017 in it, on this post.
On https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/Charr-headshot/first which has recently been commented on, all of them lack year information entirely.
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There we go.
If you are in relative date mode (“blah blah ago”), the tooltip will display eg. “September 09, 2012 16:35” on that linked post’s first comment. However it will display 18:35 normally — so I suspect the tooltip displays UTC, disregarding my timezone settings. It will also display a tooltip immediately after refresh, and the tooltip will remain to contain the same format regardless of clicks.
If you are in absolute date mode, the tooltip will not come up unless you click on the timestamp to change display mode, and will not contain the year. It will however be in local time.
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