• yarr@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If you stick to what you are doing now, you have the same problem that in 6 months, all your posts will list the “wrong” date, as they will have aged. If you MUST add the age of the linked story, I would encourage you to use an absolute date, rather than a relative one, as if you list X days ago they will instantly be wrong the next day.

    Personally, what I do, is if the story is older than 1 year, I put the year in parenthesis (2012). If it’s from this year, I don’t bother. Many sites use the same pattern.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but if you post a link to an article today saying

        “Cheese is great for you (3 days old)”

        well, after 2 days, that headline is no longer accurate.

        if you post saying

        “Cheese is great for you (2023-06-20)”

        that headline is great forever