Display standard dates in Jira server
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Problem
When working in Jira applications, relative dates like "Today" or "Yesterday" are not always practical for teams. In these cases, you may want to disable your Jira application's relative date formatting and simply show standard date formats.
JRASERVER-41506 - Enabling Absolute Date/Time for JIRA issue view
Resolution
If you're running Jira 4.4+
- Shut down your JIRA applications
- Navigate to $JIRA_HOME
- Edit the file:
jira-config.properties- See Edit the jira-config.properties file in Jira server- If this file does not exist, create it
- You can find more information on this specific file in Advanced JIRA Configuration - Atlassian Documentation
Add the following line:
jira.lf.date.relativize = falseSave the file
Restart your JIRA applications
If you're running Jira using AWS Quick Start, please see Use the jira-config.properties file to customize an AWS Quick Start deployment on how to configure this.
If you're running Jira 4.3 or earlier
- You'll want to instead modify the file:
jira-application.properties- located in $JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/
- Locate
jira.lf.date.relativize - Set to
false
This workaround will not affect all areas of Jira, such as the Activity Stream.