Description from extension meta
Show full upload dates for videos and live streams on YouTube instead of "1 year ago", "2 weeks ago", etc.
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Also display the upload time, customize the date format and show dates of comments with a $1/mo in-app purchase.
Free and paid version works on all pages:
- Video page description
- Video page sidebar
- Search page
- Search page shorts
- Topic sidebar in search
- Homepage videos
- Homepage shorts
- Subscription page
- Channel page home - featured video
- Channel page home - For You videos
- Channel page home - playlist videos
- Channel page videos
- Channel page video search
- Playlist videos
- Trending pages - Now, Music, Gaming, Films
- End of video - suggested videos
- End of video - video grid
Free and paid features:
- Replace all relative dates with full dates in local format
- Option to show relative date if video was published less than 1 day ago
Paid features:
- Show the time
- Show dates and times of comments
- Custom date and time formats
See website for more information.
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-26) kagari tamaki: I encountered some errors when using the extension on YouTube channel's shorts and videos pages. There seem to be two main issues: Extension context invalidated — looks like the extension context breaks, maybe due to page navigation or YouTube's structure changes. Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'playerMicroformatRenderer') — seems like the extension tries to get video info, but the structure changed or the data isn't ready yet. Could you please check? Thanks a lot!
- (2025-06-11) Boeing AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter: yeah it works
- (2025-04-10) Amul Star: Works but to unlock custom dates I thought of buying the Pro version. Guess what..the Pro version is subscription based! Nope!
- (2025-03-14) Mannequins Mazzara: Amazing exactly what i was looking for. I would pay for it if you made an option to only work on shorts.
- (2025-02-22) Vince Aggrippino: "Show YouTube Video Upload Date" does exactly what it says it does. The free and paid features are clearly stated in the description. IMHO, the upsell _is_ a little insulting, but it's not unexpected.
- (2025-02-11) Ky Northstar: Requires yet another subscription fee. It simply does nothing if you don't pay them. They don't have to host anything. They don't pay a penny when I run this extension. And yet, they require me to pay them money for the privilege of running JavaScript on my own computer. Greedy, that's all I can say.
- (2025-01-19) Petr Miškeřík: for everyone who uses youtube this is a must-have, just perfection, thank you very much
- (2024-11-28) J P: unfortunately, i don't think this works on Vivaldi. only a couple videos actually show the dates and rest are all still the "X year ago" format. i know this browser isnt used by enough people to really be considered, but id love if it was compatible with vivaldi!
- (2024-11-22) Amin Shahraki: very Helpful. Thank you.
- (2024-11-05) Oti Lupulescu: Simply brilliant! Most useful extension ever.
- (2024-10-20) Thymos: hey i think you should let the hours be shows if the video was uploaded under 24hours and after that you can show the exact date.
- (2024-10-08) Kate Awesome: Useful. Since it's annoying and lazy for them to make the dates looking like that!
- (2024-10-03) noir ha (tessar): Very Good
- (2024-08-18) HalfAnimation: it worked for about a minute and then randomly stopped and now i can't get it to work again edit: i came back a few hours later and it's working again
- (2024-08-12) Zayden Perez: It really does what it promises to do and I highly recommend using it, its helping me alot and its free!.
- (2024-08-05) Rahul S.: Pretty good. On the side note, it would be nice if there was 1-time payment option. As I don't want to have another reoccurring transaction. [Edit] Thanks dev. Bought the 1 year option.
- (2024-08-01) News Everydays: upgrade not free, not work with free.............
- (2024-07-30) idk Idk: verey good i like it
- (2024-07-22) Paul Dowsett: Could you explain the reason for the additional permissions, to change data on your website, in the most recent version? Once this is properly answered, I'll raise my rating to 5, because the extension is so useful and performs perfectly.
- (2024-07-21) Hauke Rieniets: Thanks alot for this, making it easier to watch a youtuber if you want to follow the videos/the progress especially if you restart your pc and dont know where you where, just find out when the last watched video was uploaded and search the channel for the next date. Will aid my quest to finish all of youtube^^ /s
- (2024-05-30) Anh Kỳ Trần: Does not show comments on posts!!!!! 1 STAR ONLY, NO 5 STARS FOR YOU!
- (2024-05-30) Anh Kỳ Trần: Does not show comments on posts!!!!! 1 STAR ONLY, NO 5 STARS FOR YOU!
- (2024-05-06) Kraer: Worked up until the last week or two. I submitted a report with a screenshot. The date is incorrect on the youtube main page, but correct on the video page.
- (2024-05-05) Kasumi Kugen: not wokring
- (2024-05-04) Bill Gates: In many cases, the latest version 4.2 removes dates from videos and don't change dates of recommended videos . You don't see dates at all, even in the usual YouTube format.
- (2024-04-28) Marc Cameron: Been using the extension for a while and the extra $1 for the time on the date just makes it really useful as I use it for screen grabbing to collate data for marketing research
- (2024-04-27) Karla Zero: This extension is awesome - it works super quickly! I just got the new upgraded version, and I now get to see the time of the uploads as well - it’s amazing and it’s exactly what I needed! Thank you for this awesome tool! :)
- (2024-04-27) Abraxas: Will I be prompted more than once for a paid version? If so, I'll be removing this and utilizing another extension instead. There's less obtrusive ways to offer paid services than taking over my entire screen first thing when loading up YouTube.
- (2024-04-27) 凛Isaac: Asked for subscription. Dev is not in the wrong, but I don't like it.
- (2024-04-15) オラオラコアラ 2.0: will it update and include the community post date?
- (2024-04-13) Alexandte RFST: Would be even better if it was active on the channel pages : https://www.youtube.com/@xxxxxxxx/videos
- (2024-04-12) so: Great extension I wish you could to add function that shows detailed date of page /videos OR /results?search_query=
- (2024-03-27) Sephiths: Would be nice if it also replaced the year count on a channel's video page. It does work for the sidebar but that wasn't what I was looking for.
- (2024-03-22) George Ivanchyk: GOOD!
- (2024-03-10) Ron Tan: It would be even better if it have option to show not just only the date but both date and time!
- (2024-03-08) Florian Ganaus: very nice
- (2024-03-04) Lunarius Fox: Great extension, would be even better if it worked in the channels videos and live categories too, if possible, looking for a video from 2020 November being drown in a hundreds of "4 years ago" video is annoying thanks to YouTube. But I'm still happy to be able to see the dates in the feeds now. Thanks a lot.
- (2024-03-02) Ana Leite: Not very useful since it only adds the date to the videos you are currently watching (if you open the description you can see the full date already, no need for the extension for that) and the ones suggested on the sidebar. Videos from search, homepage, channels, playlists, etc is not included, and that is the vast majority. I'm trying to sort a playlist by chronological order with a ton of videos in it and it's impossible when I have to open them every time I want to know the date. So frustrating.
- (2024-02-19) Monica F: Doesn't work - Date still says 1 year ago, 2 weeks / 3 weeks etc. Doesn't show actual date.
- (2023-12-24) Kyle: Can confirm what other reviews are saying. It mostly works for most videos, but any video listed as 'new' will show a very wrong, old date. For example, in my sidebar just now while watching a video, it shows a video with the 'new' tag having come out 22 Feb 2017. It actually came out 18 Dec 2023, per that video's page.
- (2023-12-21) Korutz: Works but shows date only, without hour.
- (2023-12-14) Difan Zhao: Doesn't work.. Tried to restart and still not working
- (2023-12-09) John John: Doesn't work,
- (2023-10-15) Trevor: works good. i wish it worked on the homepage though.
- (2023-10-15) Trevor: works good. i wish it worked on the homepage though.
- (2023-09-12) Jaleel Valerio: Please update caused I hate have to reload YouTube in order to make the extension work
- (2023-09-12) Jaleel Valerio: Please update caused I hate have to reload YouTube in order to make the extension work
- (2023-07-15) Remy Wilson: Been going crazy for months at all of the dates on YouTube videos (particularly in the sidebar/recommended) being completely wrong. A new video might say it was published on Jan 4, 2021, for example. Had no idea it was this extension, which is completely busted due to not being updated. Some update on YouTube must conflict with whatever its doing, because as soon as I disabled this extension, dates displayed correctly again.
- (2023-07-15) Remy Wilson: Been going crazy for months at all of the dates on YouTube videos (particularly in the sidebar/recommended) being completely wrong. A new video might say it was published on Jan 4, 2021, for example. Had no idea it was this extension, which is completely busted due to not being updated. Some update on YouTube must conflict with whatever its doing, because as soon as I disabled this extension, dates displayed correctly again.
- (2023-07-11) Stanislav Chumarin: At the moment it shows correct date for playing video and for some videos in sidebar. I wish this extension could show exact dates for all channel videos tab and posts in community tab