How to disable relative dates in Confluence comments

[Jason Reid]

What is the equivalant of this setting https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/disable-relative-dates-in-jira-applications-414187622.html?_ga=2.203499733.450927857.1554679221-1793386555.1537830461

in Confluence?

[Jason Reid]

For anybody else who finds this:

I achieved the desired result by change the Comment Layout:

#macro (displayCommentActions $commentId $commentActionSection $webInterfaceContext)
#set ($items=$webInterfaceManager.getDisplayableItems("system.comment.action/$commentActionSection", $webInterfaceContext))
#if ($items)
<ul class="comment-actions-$commentActionSection">
#foreach ($item in $items)
## provide first class name for IE6 cause first-child selector doesn't work
#if ($velocityCount==1) #set ($className="first") #else #set ($className="") #end
#if ($item.styleClass) #set($className = "$className $item.styleClass") #end
## don't introduce a line break between the <li> and <a> otherwise this will introduce an unwanted spacing when this markup is rendered. See http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/
<li class="$className"><a #if ($item.tooltip)title="$item.tooltip.getDisplayableLabel($req, $webInterfaceContext)"#end href="$item.link.getDisplayableUrl($req, $webInterfaceContext)"
#if ($item.link.id) id="${item.link.id}-$commentId" #end
><span>$item.label.getDisplayableLabel($req, $webInterfaceContext) - #if ($item.tooltip)$item.tooltip.getDisplayableLabel($req, $webInterfaceContext)#end</span></a></li>
#end
</ul>
#end
#end

[Diego]

Hey there Jason!

This is some serious advice you got there. Thanks for coming back and sharing how to achieve this.

Your knowledge can be quite useful for others as well!

[Diego]

Hello there!

Jason, currently this is not possible in Confluence.

We have feature requests for both Cloud and Server. You can check them here:

CONFSERVER-45044 | As an Administrator I want to configure Confluence to use only absolute dates

CONFCLOUD-45044 | As an Administrator I want to configure Confluence to use only absolute dates

On CONFCLOUD-45044 you can still vote and watch in case you are on Confluence cloud. Voting will increase the the visibility of the request and watching will keep you up to date!

Let us know!