Configuring Jira's relative dates

Chris Solgat
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July 30, 2015

In the Look and Feel documentation, it states that the date fields switch from relative to absolute after 1 week.  I would like to know if this could be configured to switch to absolute after 1 day instead of 1 week.  I will take any ideas.

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João Palharini
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July 30, 2015

Hi Chris!

That's not actually an easy change, as the setting seems to be hard coded into JIRA's classes. However, you can  download the source code through My Atlassian (if you have a valid license for JIRA) and modify the class in which this appears to be setup, which is the com.atlassian.jira.datetime.DateTimeSettings, as shown below.

@Override
    public String format(DateTime dateTime, Locale locale)
    {
        DateTime now = new DateTime(clock.getCurrentDate(), dateTime.getZone());
        // fall back to complete dates if relative dates are disabled
        if (!isRelativeDateFormattingEnabled())
        {
            return completeFormatter.format(dateTime, locale);
        }
        // calculate the # of days between the start of each day. this should work with funky DST edge cases
        DateTime formatStartOfDay = new LocalDate(dateTime).toDateTimeAtStartOfDay();
        DateTime todayStartOfDay = new LocalDate(now).toDateTimeAtStartOfDay();
        int days = Days.daysBetween(formatStartOfDay, todayStartOfDay).getDays();
        //In the future
        if (days < 0)
        {
           return completeFormatter.format(dateTime, locale);
        }
        // today
        if (days < 1)
        {
            String todayFmt = serviceProvider.getUnescapedText("common.concepts.today");
            return new MessageFormat(todayFmt).format(new Object[] { timeFormatter.format(dateTime, locale) });
        }
        // yesterday
        if (days < 2)
        {
            String yesterdayFmt = serviceProvider.getUnescapedText("common.concepts.yesterday");
            return new MessageFormat(yesterdayFmt).format(new Object[] { timeFormatter.format(dateTime, locale) });
        }
        // last week
        if (days < 7)
        {
            String pattern = serviceProvider.getDefaultBackedString(APKeys.JIRA_LF_DATE_DAY);
            return jodaFormatterSupplier.get(new JodaFormatterSupplier.Key(pattern, locale)).print(dateTime);
        }
        // complete format
        return completeFormatter.format(dateTime, locale);
    }

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Cheers!

Joao

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