This is actually one of my (few) pet peeves with the 37Signals crowd. I remember reading somewhere (possibly in their Getting Real book) the reasoning behind such design decisions as not including the year on the dates displayed in their web applications. The general reasoning as I remember it was "It doesn't matter."
It doesn't matter until it's 3-4 years later and I'm reading a post on Rails that may or may not actually still be relevant and trying to figure out what Rails version it pertains to. Sure the date doesn't matter so much when the content is new, but particularly when it comes to technical documentation, the date starts to matter more and more as the content ages.
It doesn't matter until it's 3-4 years later and I'm reading a post on Rails that may or may not actually still be relevant and trying to figure out what Rails version it pertains to. Sure the date doesn't matter so much when the content is new, but particularly when it comes to technical documentation, the date starts to matter more and more as the content ages.