u/Gogani

Every website has it, being reddit, youtube, etc

For example on a reddit comment, you might see "2y" to indicate the comment was posted 2 years ago

Initially, the way it worked is that it would show "2 years ago" until we cross the 3rd anniversary, then it becomes "3 years ago"

But recently this behaviour has changed on all major websites I can think of. Now, it might show "3 years ago" if it was 2.6 years ago for example, and I find this rounding to be very confusing

Has it always worked like that or am I not crazy and the behaviour actually changed?

My theory is that they all rely on the same javascript library and that it recently changed its behaviour, but I couldn't verify this