Yesterday is no more; Today and Tomorrow, too.

The sun will come out on May 4th.

May 2 all my troubles seem so far away. May 3 it looks like they are here to stay. Oh I believe in May 2.

 

Have never used yesterday or tomorrow. Today is fair game.

 

Always hate using today. Perhaps that's because I have to edit postgame quotes to reflect that, and that annoys me, but whatever.

 

In most online stories, that post date is in tiny font, somewhere way off the page.

There was a whole thing last year where a bunch of people got annoyed at some Muslim group in Houston for hosting a Six Flags day on Sept. 11. Except they'd misinterpreted the online story, and the event was actually Sept. 4.

If you want to use yesterday/today/tomorrow, you're basically saying you don't want people to use your online archive of stories.

 

exactly

 

Online? In a newspaper, "today" is fine. The newspaper goes in the trash by the end of the day. Online stories last forever. A large percentage of your total readership comes after "today." That's particularly true for any story posted after 5 p.m. Don't make them use the time stamp.

 

Maybe I'm giving too much credit to readers, but I've never been confused going back and looking at a story written months ago that uses today. It would bug me if there was no time stamp on it, though. As long as the time stamp isn't invisible, I don't see using today as a big issue.

 

Our paper switched a while back...then a few weeks ago, we went back to using "today", but regular day names any other time.

 

So do both Who and What have split personalities and think they're also the catcher and pitcher, respectively?