Jalali Calendar for Jira

[Sara ak]

Hi

Is there any way to use jalali calendar in jira ? for instance in DatePicker ?

is there any plugin for this purpose?

Thanks

[Timothy · Accepted solution]

No. Unless you create your own custom field.

[Sara ak]

Don't know it helps or not but at last we implement a new custom field type which prepare Jalali Date Calendar for us. so if anybody have question about this process, maybe I can help him/her

[Sara ak]

nope! it doesn't work . think jira doesn't support persian or hindi locale for calendar

[yadollah mokarami]

Did you finally find any solution for adding Persian Calendar to JIRA?

[Sara ak]

yeap! as I said we implement a new "custom field TYPE" which provides Jalali calendar for jira. read this tutorial https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Creating+a+Custom+Field+Type. all you need to do is using this tutorial and find a persian javascript calendar. custom field type is necessary if you want to make your field reusable.

[yadollah mokarami]

Well actually I am not a developer. I am a user and I need expert help to fix this problem.

I understand that your are Iranian too. May I contact you through e-mail.

[Sara ak]

I'll be glad to help. srh.blueocean@gmail.com

[yadollah mokarami]

I sent you an e-mail. Did you receive it?

[Alex Perez]

Calendar settings are ruled by the language settings. Take a look to the translations site for iranian/hindi, maybe they provide a different calendar (don't know) ...

[Sarah Navin]

There is no native way to use a Jalali (Persian) date picker in Jira Cloud or Jira Data Center, and currently Atlassian does not support alternative calendar systems in its DatePicker fields. Jira only renders dates in the standard Gregorian format, and the UI components can’t be replaced or overridden through Marketplace apps at the moment.

As for plugins:

No published Jira Cloud/Data Center app provides a Jalali or Shamsi date picker today. Most calendar-related apps only extend scheduling, planning, or reporting features, but none replace the built-in date controls.

That said, this limitation isn’t unique to Jira.

Other platforms have had the same gap — for example, WordPress also does not support Jalali dates by default, and developers usually solve it by building an integration layer that converts backend-stored Gregorian timestamps into Shamsi on the UI. I’ve seen this approach work well in the WordPress ecosystem (e.g., modules that add Jalali support to WP, WooCommerce, or multi-vendor dashboards such as Dokan), and theoretically the same pattern could work for Jira if Atlassian ever exposes the DatePicker component for extension in the future.

So unfortunately:

• No, Jira cannot use a Jalali date picker today.
• No Marketplace app currently implements it.
• A solution would require Atlassian to open UI extension points, similar to how other platforms allow it.

If Atlassian expands UI extensibility in upcoming Forge updates, this is definitely something the community could build, just as developers have already done in other ecosystems like WordPress.

[Mohammad Reza Ghorbani]

Hi

Who can help me about implementing a new custom field for jalali date calendar?

thank you