Is there a way to show the date rather than "yesterday"

[Tom Bridges]

In the dates section of the Jira issues, we would rather show the proper date, rather than "Yesterday".

Is there an option in Jira to do this?

[Andy Nguyen · Accepted solution]

Hey everyone,

It seems the problem here is just the usage of a wrong filename. The file that should be created in JIRA_Home is jira-config.properties, not jira-application.properties.

[Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_]

Hi @Andy Nguyen,

I totally missed it, thanks for looking into this!

[Daniel Eads]

Hey Tom,

I've opened a case in our support system to move forward on this. I wasn't able to reproduce the issue you're seeing with disabling relative dates in 8.2.4, or 8.2.3, or 8.2.2, or 8.3.0. Taking a look at the issue you linked in jira.atlassian.com, the folks making comments most recently are on instances where they don't have access to the filesystem to make changes to jira-application.properties.

Based on not being able to reproduce it, we'd like to get some information from your instance via a support zip. Be on the lookout for an email from our support system with more information about this.

Thanks,
Daniel Eads | Atlassian Support

[Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_]

Hi @Tom Bridges,

Sure, you can follow this documentation for Jira Server to get absolute dates instead: Disable relative dates in JIRA applications.

Hope this helps,

- Manon

[Tom Bridges]

Hi,

That work around does not work.

If you follow the JRASERVER issue mentioned in the "problem" section, you'll find comments back to Jan 2019 stating this does not work anymore.

FYI, I am running Jira Server 8.2.4.

Thanks,

Tom

[Tom Bridges]

FYI,

I had to create the file jira-application.properties in c:\program files\atlassian\application data\jira\ with the following line:

jira.lf.date.relativize = false

[Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_]

Glad you worked it out!

The article does work, but indeed you may have to create the jira-application.properties file if it does not exist yet. Thanks for your feedback.

In addition to your reply, you need to create the jira-application.properties file at the root of your Jira application home directory (see here where to find it).

[Tom Bridges]

No. I clearly stated that this DOES NOT work.

[Alexis Robert]

Hi @Tom Bridges , 

does the workaround "add jira.lf.date.relativize = false" to jira-application.properties not work for you on Jira 8.2.4 ? 

I am not sure if you're saying that you managed to fix your initial problem or not.

Thanks, 

--Alexis

[Tom Bridges]

Yes. I am saying the work around does not work.

I stopped Jira, created the file jira-application.properties in c:\program files\atlassian\application data\jira\ with the line jira.lf.date.relativize = false and restarted Jira.

There is no difference in the functionality.. "Yesterday" is still shown.