Past dates displaying in red
Asked by Sharon Janett:

After the update last week of Confluence Cloud all dates on pages are displaying in orange if today, and red if before today. Tried deleting and reentering but still changes the date colour automatically.

Is this config or a bug?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello everyone!

This is a known bug at this time, and I have reported it here:

* [CONFCLOUD-65700](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65700) *Past dates are showing up red (late) when not attached to a* task

Please vote on the bug if you are experiencing it, and watch for any updates going forward.

Thank you for your attention!

Regards,

Shannon


author: Lee Sunter
body: I agree with everyone points so far, its a poorly thought out change and an obvious one that should have been user acceptance tested surely.

Having to explain to our customers that the red date isn't a bad thing and just a config of Atlassian isn't great.

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Lee,

Have you seen my top reply on this thread? The intention of the feature is to only turn red when attached to a task. I've reported it as a bug for turning red outside of a task.

Please make sure to vote on the bug so we can understand how many users are being affected by this:

* [CONFCLOUD-65700](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65700) *Past dates are showing up red (late) when not attached to a* task

Thank you!

Shannon


author: Lee Sunter
body: Done :)


author: Shannon S
body: Thank you for doing that, Lee!

Take care,

Shannon


author: Marty
body: Hi Sharon,

I am not on the Confluence team, but have reached out to them informally.

I'll let you know if/when I hear back from them.

comments: author: Marty
body: Hi Sharon,

I have some news on this. It looks like dates *inside* tasks will change colour based on the current date. Dates *outside* tasks will not change colour.

The rationale behind this is that a date *inside* a task is an action item for someone to complete by a certain date. It doesn't look like this is new behaviour and it doesn't look configurable.

Can you place your dates *outside* of a task?

I hope that helps!


author: Jared Vertogen
body: Hi Martyn,

I am from the same team Sharon is on, and unfortunately this doesn't work.

Any date using the //date format will show red after the date, or amber if close to the due date.

The problem is that we used to have it red/amber *within* a task, which works great - a nice easy way to check how due it is.

The problem is that any date *outside*of a task also seems to run by these same rules now, instead of just staying black and it is really messing with how our Confluence looks.

Regards,


author: Marty
body: Hi Jared,

that is surprising!

Would you mind adding some screenshots of what you're seeing?


author: Jared Vertogen
body: Sure thing - As attached. Usually dates outside a task would like the 'Next Month' format - being just black.![Amber_Red Date Testing.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/46094iE7EA86DE4251D4FA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Amber_Red Date Testing.png")


author: Marty
body: Hi Jared,

this doesn't look normal - the double calendar icon within the tasks is not expected either.

Are you able to raise a support ticket via support.atlassian.com?


author: Jared Vertogen
body: Have done so - I'll update this thread if/when I get an answer.

Thanks Martyn


author: Nathan Vasquez
body: Same happening here. Makes it look like something is overdue when I'm just using regular date to show a project 'start date'.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/46912i0BFE2D8482C75FE4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Marty
body: Hi Nathan,

I'd recommend that you raise a support ticket via support.atlassian.com.

The more people open support tickets, the higher any bugs will be prioritised (in general).


author: Jared Vertogen
body: I'm still waiting on support with my ticket to Atlassian - but I will update this once done!


author: Supreet
body: Hi Sharon,

I understand you see different date colors while using the date picker in Confluence. As of now, there are two editors in Confluence: old editor and the new editor.

**In the old editor**: When you use date picker here, all the overdue dates are chosen as red in color, the due in next week in orange and gray for rest of them.

**In the new editor**: When you use date picker here, all the dates no matter past or present are a gray color.

For the gradual rollout of the editor, this is supposed to get all the pages in the near future but, by now, most part of the customers already have the option to create pages with the same, by simply tapping the "+" icon and selecting the Option matching with the new experience, or, the "blank" page will already have the new experience.

If you do not want to proceed with this option, a workaround would be to manually paste the date, instead of using the date picker (for example, 02/25/2019).


author: Jared Vertogen
body: Simply put, is there any way at all to change Confluence back to the way it was?

Every single date across all of our setup is messed up now, which is essentially every single page. It looks appalling, and I for one do not want to have to get rid of the date picker, which is great, just to have dates look correct again.

Will this change back when we have access to the 'new editor' as you stated this will put all dates in grey?

Regards,


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