How To Set Blogger Comment Timestamp Format Correctly?

Many bloggers don't care about Blogger timestamp configuration. Without proper configuration, many widgets like the 'TimeAgo' feature, as well as search engine won't able to function properly.

If you are aware of this issue then you may be thinking about 

• How To configure blogger timestamp Format Correctly? or 
• How to change comment Timestamp Format in blogger properly? or 
• How to fix the incorrect Timestamp Format in Blogger?

Comment Timestamp is important to display the comment date and time accurately. There are many blogs that are not functioning correctly because of the wrong setup of Comment Timestamp. Suppose you have a Blog and received a 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 on what date that comment has been made. 

In case of large Blog which receives huge comments from readers, they won’t able to tract the newer and older comment. Comment Timestamp gives information to the commentator about the last comment’s date and time. As a result, other readers won’t able to participate in the comment thread.

In the case of some Blogger theme, you will see an error if the 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 of Comment Timestamp format. But all formats are not suitable for all Blog. You can choose and display either details or short Comment Timestamp format on your Blogger site. But it depends on your template’s comment section design. If you are using a narrow comment form then a short Comment Timestamp format will be ideal. But if your template width is 1200px width then you can use details Comment Timestamp format.

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-

• 1/5/21

We will understand that 1st May 2021 but this is not proper human-readable Comment Timestamp Format.  Instead of the above Comment Timestamp Format if you select below Comment Timestamp, then it will be more human-readable.

• 01 May, 2021

So, we should use a 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 a different Comment Timestamp format. Otherwise, the 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.

• 1/5/21

Though it doesn’t affect significant your site 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 it's better we should use the above Comment Timestamp format. But if you just focus on the 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 the 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' from the left menu. scroll down and locate the 'Formatting' section

That’s it your new Comment Timestamp Format set on your Blog and just check your Blog the comment section, you will see all old comment’s time format has changed with new Timestamp Format.

If you are using the TimeAgo feature then the comment time will be shown like the below screenshot. 

I hope this small tutorial will help to select the correct Comment Timestamp format for your Blog.