Dashboard containing an issue list with a last updated column in Hours/Days

[Stewart Dobrzynski]

How can I configure my dashboard to display the last updated column in Hours or Days rather than a Date.  When you open Jira defects there is a Date section that display this information and I would like the same on my board.

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi Stewart,

I understand that you want to be able to see the date and time of the updated field when looking at Jira issues on a dashboard gadget, such as the issues in progress gadget.

I found a way that you can do this, but it might have some drawbacks.  As a Jira admin you can navigate to Cog icon -> System -> Look and Feel or the URL path /secure/admin/LookAndFeel!default.jspa

On this page you can find the entry for Day/Month/Year Format.  By default this is only expected to show you the date, but you can configure it to show the date and time.  You could change this from

dd/MMM/yy

into

dd/MMM/yy h:mm a

Doing this does have the effect of showing the time for that field in the gadget.  But this work-around means that all other date fields will also be showing an hour/minute view as well.  This might not be ideal because date fields aren't expected to store time, but might be using a default say midnight of the date in question that would be displayed.

Because this work-around is not ideal, I found an existing feature request that seeks to improve this behavior over in JRASERVER-70771.  I would recommend watching and voting on that issue to anyone this problem affects.  This can help our team to better prioritize improvements to Jira Server.

I hope this helps.

Andy