we're talking about a casual context, so the average user doesn't need an exact time stamp on when a picture was taken. The average person doesn't talk in time stamps, so the paradigm was shifted to display how people communicated.
Another nitpick is that relative dates solve the date format issue. No need to fuss over YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY or any other permutation, but we all can agree on when "7 months ago" was.
Another nitpick is that relative dates solve the date format issue. No need to fuss over YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY or any other permutation, but we all can agree on when "7 months ago" was.