Scriptrunner for JIRA fromNow

[Daz Daz]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to beautify dates or simplify or whatever you call it. Instead of showing absolute datetime like 2019-01-01T08:00:00, it would be better if I show 5 days ago or Yesterday or 5 minutes ago and the likes. 

I am using Scriptrunner for JIRA and it is using groovy scripts. For .net I can use moment.js but not too sure for groovy script. If possible I do not want to do it the hard way and have hundred lines of code/logic just to translate absolute datetime to relative datetime. 

Any kind soul knows how to do this?

[Sid]

hi @Daz Daz,

1. Shut down your JIRA applications
2. Navigate to $JIRA_HOME
3. Edit the file: jira-config.properties

4. modify the following line:

   jira.lf.date.relativize = true

5. Save the file

6. Restart your JIRA applications

this should bring back what you are looking for, Let me know if this solves

[Daz Daz]

Thanks for the reply but it is not what  am looking for. I do not intend to relativize all the datetimes in jira. I only want certain datetime/field/values to be relative dates.

I am currently using Scriptrunner for JIRA to make a custom field. I currently have a datetime value like 2019-01-01T08:00:00 and I want to relativize it and display the value on that custom field so that it appears as 5 minutes ago for example.