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answered on 11 Jan 2010, 10:21 AM

Hello Keith,

Thank you for contacting us!

In fact if the post date is different than the current year we show the year i.e. “Posted on Jan 5, 2009” but if the post date is from the current year (currently 2010) we show “Posted on Jan 5”. We are doing it in this way because we believe it is better to show less information, it’s more natural for reading and more similar to the way we talk about dates.

Please take our apologies for he inconvenience caused!

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Atanas
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answered on 11 Jan 2010, 01:52 PM

I beg to differ on the logic of "it is better to show less information, it’s more natural for reading and more similar to the way we talk about dates". A fundamental priciple of UI usability is consistancy and minimize cognitive processing. By dropping the year for the current year, the user has to know that that is your model and unless it is explained somewhere, which I belive it is not, they have to discover it by chance. If they do happen to browse enough to land on some posts with the dates, they might wonder why some posts have the date and others don't. However, it does not insure that they would figure out. What is more likely to happen, which is my case is all the posts that I looked at didn't have the date, so what the heck is the time frame? Why add the extra cognitive processing. "If there's a 'trick' to it, the UI is broken." - Douglas Anderson (via uxqoutes.com)

Food for thought.

K.E.