There’s a book, I’ve never seen anybody talk about it or write about it, but when I read it, I thought, in a funny way, it was helpful for Liar’s Poker. It was a book called The Innocent Anthropologist.
It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month
from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it
drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about
6 years.
6d5 days ago
8mo8 months ago
2yr2 years ago
4yr4 years ago
9yr9 years ago
A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did
not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.