page history: published field with date and time
Asked by 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


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: 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](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68213) *Show page history complete timestamp*

Thank you for bringing this suggestion to Atlassian Community!

Take care,

Shannon


author: Christoph Lechleitner
body: 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.

comments: author: Ingmar Vack
body: 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" ...


author: Christoph Lechleitner
body: 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.


author: repi
body: General configuration -\> Change Date Format

![Datumsformat.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92771iB0AF6B8CBABFC1BC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Datumsformat.png")

comments: author: Ingmar Vack
body: 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


author: matthias
body: Hi [@Ingmar Vack](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3484982)   

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


author: matthias
body: For the moment, I will go with [@repi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/302600) 's answer and hack the time into the "Date Format" such that the "Page History" will show the time...


author: Ingmar Vack
body: Hello [@matthias](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4465607)

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](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/302600), 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


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