My apologies in advance if this offends any nations sensibilities, but it is a bit ridiculous imho.
Sometimes it isn’t instantly clear when a post was made…Surely the day can come before the month…
Screenshots from posts showing date formats that are less than desirable…
Prefered date format…
Nov '22
24 May
Hi @NickB
Those are 2 different “date formats”, so to speak. The First is an old post, the small ’ indicating that the post was made in November 2022 - the ’ used to remove the first two digits of the year (I was born in '75, indicating I was born in 1975. My daughter was born in '11, indicating she was born in 2011). The second date is from the current year, May 24th, hence no year is indicated. I believe these are standard date “abbreviations”.
HTH, Jakob
Agreed, they are two different formats. They’re just absurdly similar, particularly with the kerning and grey colour, hence my comment.
As part of my argument, how many times have very old posts been resurrected, possibly due to confusion over the date? I have done it myself recently, seeing a Jul '15 post in a search result and thinking it was current.
Ah, OK… Well, it’s not really something I’ve ever thought of as problematic, but I’m guessing it’s a default Discourse thing. I think @stevebaer is (or at least was 
) the Discourse-guy to take it up with 
-Jakob
I agree, it’s confusing. The difference between the two is pretty subtle…
Agree, I have thought the same many times.
IMO it is OK to see the date of the month for other years too, we are not running out of space here so why truncate it?