How To Configure Blogger Comment Timestamp Format Correctly?
Comment Timestamp is important to display the comment date
and time accurately. There are many blog which is not functioning correctly
because of wrong setup of Comment Timestamp. Suppose you have a Blog and
received couple of comments under a Blog post. But if your Blog’s Comment
Timestamp is not configuring correctly then you won’t understand when and in
what date that comment has been made. In case of large Blog which receive huge
comments from readers they won’t able to tract the newer and older comment. Comment
Timestamp give information to commentator about last comment’s date and time. As
a result other readers won’t able to participate in comment thread.
In case of some Blogger template you will see an error if Comment
Timestamp format is not configured properly. It will display Undefined Date instead of comment time
and date. So configuring Comment Timestamp is necessary for Blogger to avoid
any unexpected error. In this tutorial I will show you how to configure Comment
Timestamp correctly in Blogger?
Available Comment Timestamp in Blogger Platform.
In Blogger Platform you will find 25 types Comment Timestamp
format. But all formats are not suitable for all Blog. You can choose and
display either details or short Comment Timestamp format in your Blogger site.
But it depends on your template’s comment section design. If you are using
narrow comment form then short Comment Timestamp format will be ideal. But if
your template width is 1200px width then you can use details Comment Timestamp
format.
- Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 9:43:21 PM GMT+6
- May 1, 2016 at 9:43:21 PM GMT+6
- May 1, 2016 at 9:43 PM
- May 1, 2016 at 9:43:21 PM
- 9:43:21 PM
- 9:43 PM
- 9:43 PM GMT+6
- 9:43 PM, May 01, 2016
- 9:43:21 PM
- 21:43
- May 01, 2016
- May 01, 2016 9:43 PM
- Sunday, May 01, 2016
- Sunday, May 01, 2016 9:43:21 PM
- Sun, May 01, 9:43:21 PM GMT+6
- Sun, May 01, 9:43:21 PM
- Sun, May 01, 9:43:21 PM 2016
- 1.5.16
- 1/5/16
- 1/5/16 21:43
- 1/5/16 9:43 PM
- Sunday, 01 May, 2016
- 01 May, 2016 21:43
- 01 May, 2016
- Sunday, 01 May, 2016
Human Readable Comment Timestamp Format
If you just use digit on your Comment Timestamp Format then
it may not human readable Comment Timestamp. For example if you select below Comment
Timestamp Format-
- 1/5/16
We will understand that 1st May, 2016 but this is not
proper human readable Comment Timestamp Format.
Instead of above Comment Timestamp Format if you select below Comment Timestamp,
then it will be more human readable.
- 01 May, 2016
So, we should use human readable Comment Timestamp format
for our website.
Search Engine Friendly Comment Timestamp Format
If you have optimized your site for schema.org markup
then we should use different Comment Timestamp format. Otherwise search engine
won’t able to read your Comment Timestamp date. Search engine friendly and
according to ISO time format we should use below Comment Timestamp format.
- 1/5/16
Though it doesn’t affect significant your site but if you
want to optimize your site for Yandex then you will see an error that Yandex
can’t read your post and comment date. So its better we should use the above Comment
Timestamp format. But if you just focus on Google search engine then you
shouldn’t panic with it. But my recommendation is to optimize your site for all
search engines.
How to change Comment Timestamp Format in Blogger?
This is very easy to change Comment Timestamp Format in
Blogger. It will take less than few minutes. Just follow the below steps-
Step 1 Log in to your Blogger Account and Go to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2 Click on -> Settings -> Language
and formatting->
Step 3 Now locate Formatting section.
Step 4 Select Time format
next to Comment Timestamp Format.
Step 5 Finally click Save settings button from top right corner of the screen.
That’s it your new Comment Timestamp Format set on your Blog and just check your Blog
comment section, you will see all old comment’s time format has changed with
new Timestamp Format.
I hope this small tutorial will help to select correct Comment
Timestamp format for your Blog.
