I can't find the date of a published video anymore in youtube, or it's difficult (and wasn't before).<p>I thought it might be an extension[0], but its happening on chrome on my laptop too.<p>[0]: I had an idea to create an extension that hides every number >4 on the web, so that i am not bothered with "gamification".. but its not that
I thought the same thing the other week, but noticed it disappears when there's not enough space to show it? Try maximizing browser, reducing font size, etc.
I see the short date info (3 years ago) on thumbnails and the full date under the video page's title and right after the number of views.<p>Maybe something on YouTube got updated, and you were seeing some cached bit of code that didn't jibe right.
I had the same problem, was a size cutoff caused by me setting the scaling to 200% or something. Once I reset scaling, date is back.<p>Hope it is that easy for you, and it isn't a bigger problem.