YouTube is the most popular video hosting service. It has a relatively simple design and user-friendly functionality, allowing authors to upload videos to the platform quickly and easily. At the same time, users can easily follow their favorite content creators and watch videos. However, like any service, YouTube has a few unpleasant minuses that can spoil your experience. For example, users have recently complained that some videos have lost their publishing date.
Probably the first thing you’ll think is that it’s another new feature like YouTube removed the number of disliked videos, but it turned out to be a bug. This usually happens because of the wrong page format or a glitch during the video loading. Fixing this is usually pretty straightforward. Let’s take a closer look at this problem.
Why you can’t see the date on the YouTube video
Let me tell you immediately: YouTube updated its design not long ago once again, and this problem disappeared for most users. However, there is no guarantee that this may not still happen to you. So it is better to be prepared and know exactly what to do.
As I said above, users usually get this error if they change the scale of the page and the page breaks a little. By default, all pages, including YouTube, are made under the 100% scale. If you change it, such as increasing or decreasing, some page elements may not display correctly. This usually leads to such visual bugs as missing the video upload date.
Another problem users have is that the page doesn’t load to the end. Or when loading the page, you have a failure in the Internet connection, and some of its elements couldn’t load and now are displayed incorrectly. This can be any element of the page, including the date line. However, do not get upset if you encounter such a problem. I will explain how to fix it.
How to fix YouTube videos that don’t have a date
Let’s take a closer look at what you can do to fix the page bug that hides the video’s upload date. There are several fixes or alternatives that you can use to find out the publishing date. Let me tell you about all of them.
Try restarting your browser and reloading the website
First, you should do the essential thing. Try closing and reopening the browser on your computer. After that, try downloading the desired YouTube video again. This should help you solve the problem if you encounter the webpage loading incorrectly.
Change the zoom of the website
As I mentioned above, often, the problem is that the website crashes because you zoomed the page. This is something that is simply returning the page to its normal size can help you with. To do this, you need to:
- In most browsers, you’ll have to click the CRTL button and roll the mouse wheel up or down.
- You will see a popup with the page scale size in the upper right corner. Roll the wheel so that the scale is 100%.
This should help to solve most problems with stray text, misfits, or missing web page elements. As I mentioned, most of them are tested and adjusted for a 100% Scale. So it would be best if you tried returning everything to default values.
Set up the extension to view the publication date
Because this problem can happen from time to time after the following updates of YouTube design, you may need a particular extension that takes data from YouTube video metafiles and shows you the exact publishing date.
It’s called YouTube Upload Time and can be added to all browsers on Chromium. For example, Google Chrome, Mozilla, or Opera. To do this, you need to go to the link above and click Add. Then follow the instructions.
Once you’ve added and activated the extension, you can open the desired video and click on the extension icon near the address bar. In the dropdown window, you’ll see information about the date and time of publication. This is pretty handy.
Look up the date in the metadata
You can manually check the video metadata using a third-party online service if you don’t want to download extensions for your browser. To do this, you will need the following:
- Copy the address of your YouTube video
- Next, you need to go to the YouTube Metadata page, type in your YouTube video address in the search box, and click Submit.
- Scroll down and find your YouTube video’s publishing details.
It’s pretty easy, although it does require a third-party app. You can also find a lot of information here about videos hidden from regular users, so I suggest you take a closer look at all the data shown there.
