The further away in the past a file was created or modified, the less interesting its exact details. This is the idea behind friendly dates, a xplorer² feature that bunches files in date groups like modified "last hour", "yesterday", "last month" or "long ago". If you don't care to see exact dates and times, you can turn on these friendly dates using Tools > Options menu. If this mode hides too much information for your liking, you can use the extra friendly mode (available through Tools > Advanced options menu), which is guaranteed to show 1-day accurate date information for all files, as well as show recently changed files by their age (XX minutes or YY days ago), as in this picture:
If you don't care for friendly and file age formating, untick "friendly dates" option. Then you can change the way xplorer² stock date columns (modified, created) are shown using custom date and time descriptor strings in Advanced options. The last column in the pic above was created with these format strings:
date: dd MMMM yyyy time: (a single space → no time shown!)
As you can probably guess, dd stands for day, MMMM for month (long name) and yyyy for 4-digit year (e.g. 10 April 2021). To put the month first you would type something like MM dd yy. You can add spaces or dashes (-) or slashes or whatever else you like to separate date parts. You can read all the available day month and year format strings here
And remember: today is what tomorrow was yesterday! :)
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