Popular magazine titles and chronology

There is something to be said for consistency and predictability.


I like the fact that Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and such come out once a week. I appreciate the fact that the chonology is always on the cover.


However, someone needs to tell publishers that putting the date in the same place on the cover would be of great help to us that toil in libraries or educational institutions.


I was up in stacks pulling old issues of SI yesterday and having to hunt for the date on each cover -- noticing that it was not in the same place two weeks in a row. I only want to know WHY? Is it really so much work to change the date on the galley proof? It must not be all that difficult, because several other "news" magazines manage to place the correct date in the same place every two weeks...