page history: published field with date and time

[Ingmar Vack]

Hi there,

is there a way to have the date values of the 'Published' field on the 'Page History' page always showing date and time? This question is not about changing/setting the general date format but to have the time information for all history entries.

The published date values on the history page currently read like this:
- Yesterday at 2:35 PM
- Apr 26, 2020
- Apr 25, 2020

and it would be very helpful to have them like this:
- Yesterday at 2:35 PM
- Apr 26, 2020 at 3:16 PM
- Apr 25, 2020 at 11:45 AM

or even better, in the sense of perfect:
- Apr 25, 2020 at 4:44 PM
- Apr 26, 2020 at 3:16 PM
- Apr 25, 2020 at 11:45 AM

Thank you in advance and best regards, Ingmar

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hello everyone,

We currently have a feature request to include a timestamp in the Page History, so please add your votes and comments to help get some visibility on this:

• CONFCLOUD-68213 Show page history complete timestamp

Thank you for bringing this suggestion to Atlassian Community!

Take care,

Shannon

[Christoph Lechleitner]

Currently in the cloud the page history only shows "About an hour ago" for the last change, and only the date for older changes.

That's a joke, Atlassian continues to make their services worse.

FYI, the full "Page Information" does contain a frame "Recent Changes" with date + time of the last 5 commits.

[Ingmar Vack]

Thank you for your note!
The full "Page Information" frame "Recent Changes" with its maximum of 5 recent dates does look clear and lucid and is therefore quick and easy to overlook (goes easy on the eyes):

Jan 12, 2022 09:57
Jan 05, 2022 13:11
Jan 05, 2022 10:35
Jan 04, 2022 17:10
Jan 04, 2022 17:03

(where as Jan 12, 2022 09:57 is just ten seconds away!)

So it is possible though - or is this the bug according to Atlassian?
Which product owner at Atlassian exactly might be that mighty poetry-slam fan, I ask myself?
By the way, I personally would 'prefer' "Almost about a tiny first hour ago" over "About an hour ago" ...

[Christoph Lechleitner]

Maybe we shouldn't tell them, they might remove the time from the "Recent Changes" list too.

I don't mind "x hours ago" but I always want the time, with seconds precision rather than just minute precision. I know seconds precision can bring in ambiguity because of the remote calls, network latencies, and database transaction involved, but still.

[repi]

General configuration -> Change Date Format

[Ingmar Vack]

Thank you repi, but as I already foresaw it in my question:
"This question is not about changing/setting the general date format but to have the time information for all history entries".
I do not want the change the Date Time Format which is fine and correct (just like yours).
Instead, I like to see the time of day in all entries of the 'Page History'.
BR, Ingmar

[matthias]

Hi @Ingmar Vack 

Have you been able to resolve this? I have the same problem. I need to see the date and time in the "Page History".

Thanks, Matthias

[matthias]

For the moment, I will go with @repi 's answer and hack the time into the "Date Format" such that the "Page History" will show the time...

[Ingmar Vack]

Hello @matthias 

sadly I have not been able to resolve the issue of setting a uniform date format (like MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm) for all entries, including the entries of recently changed page versions.
I also did change the 'Date Format' as proposed by @repi, but it still reads quite mixed like this:

CURRENT (v. 121)    7 minutes ago
v. 120                      Yesterday at 12:34 PM
v. 119                      Aug 23, 2021 16:19

Best regards, Ingmar