# Confusing date notations

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656 "2019-07-18T09:52:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656/1 "2019-07-18T09:52:11Z")

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I’ve been caught a few times by a post I though was pretty recent (talking about a recent version of Ignition), but was actually years old.

I believe it would be better to always show years with 4 digits, so I don’t confuse “January 2013” with “January 13th”.

![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/c/c3c210aafd5abe3f3573bbac12f7c9bbafa3c9a7.png)  
 ![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/4/41d802c07c75d6f015c90ee819fdc5414e1fb43c.png)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656/2 "2019-07-18T12:12:33Z")

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I don’t see any settings to change this ☹

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**Author:** ![chi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@chi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chi)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656/3 "2019-07-18T13:54:12Z")

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There seems to be a setting to change the format: [link](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-current-version-change-the-date-format/41480)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656/4 "2019-07-18T13:57:18Z")

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Nice find… I made the changes.

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confusing-date-notations/26656/5 "2019-07-18T14:03:19Z")

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That’s great. Thank you both. search results and posts are a lot clearer now.