Change week start day

[Louise Coleman]

I work for a big multinational company and Jira is set up to have the week starting on a Sunday.  Where I work, the week starts on a Monday.  The people in charge of our system have said it isn't possible for some users to have the week start on Monday or any other day of the week) and other a Sunday.

Is it really true that the start day of the week can't be changed for sub-sets of users?  Around half the world starts the week on a Monday, around half on a Sunday and there are others who start the week on a different day.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Louise Coleman 

Welcome to the community.

Yes that is true, its a system wide setting.

If it could it would break JQL functionality and if you would use data for. reporting would be inconsistent.

As any of the JQL data clauses could be different for sub-sets of users.

[Louise Coleman]

Thanks for replying @Marc - Devoteam .  Very frustrating that 50% of users are left frustrated.

I don't see how reporting would be inconsisent - issues would still be in a partcular to do/doing/done board column for the same amount of days.  That said, I am a very new user so very willing to believe that something woudln't show consistently for a users in different parts of the world.  What would be inconsistent?

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Louise Coleman 

Reports based on dates would be off. JQL has many date functions.

Example If you would need a KPI off all issues created and solved from last week.

JQL would look like:

created >= startOfWeek (-7d) and resolved >= startOfWeek(-7)

If you start of week is different, you results will be off, because you will not have issues users created and resolved in the timeframe of the 1st day of their week setting, as the JQL clause will no now that difference.

[Louise Coleman]

Thanks for your response again @Marc - Devoteam , and sorry about the delay - work is manic at the moment.

Yes, I can now see that with that search string different start days could cause a problem if start days were different, thanks.  I'm not getting into that level of micro management so I never thought of that.  If I was, I'd probably not go for a search that included start of week becuase my colleagues are international, some have a weekend that is Friday and Saturday.  I'd probably go for something that included the last 14 or 30 days.

Thanks agian, Jira has certianly got a learning curve!