Issues created near midnight show as "today" after midnight

Question

Have an issue that was created 11:47 pm.  The next day ~10am, it still shows as "Created: Today 11:47 pm". This is on the issue view itself, not through query.

Seems it flags as "Today" within the last 24 hours?

We're still on Jira 6.2 (I know, old), so maybe this was a bug that's been addressed already.

mike_38fgmh · Answer

This was not from a query.  It was in the regular Issue View, the date area on the side.  At ~10:30 AM, the task showed as "Created: Today 11:45PM"

Just fyi, we are Central time, GMT -6

Andy Heinzer · Answer

Hi Mike,

Could you share with us the specific JQL query syntax used here?   I have a suspicion that your Jira site might be showing this for a couple of different reasons.  Chief among them could be timezones.

For example, let's say your in Chicago (CST), and your Jira server is in New York (EST).  If you create an issue at 11:47PM CST time, that issue will get stored into Jira with a time stamp of 12:47AM the next day in Jira.   Jira tends to store date values in a ISO format that takes into consideration the timezone of the server/system where the data is created or stored.  As such, it could be that 11PM Central time from yesterday could theoretically show as today in Jira.  Jira tends to use the user profile to set the time to be relative to your location.   Depending on the syntax of your JQL I think will really determine whether if today starts at midnight for you or not.  If it does not, then in this example, I would expect that 11PM yesterday to 10:59PM today would all be time within the same day.

I hope this helps.

Andy