Option to show real dates instead of relative dates like "tomorrow" | Consistent due date display | Voters

Option to show real dates instead of relative dates like "tomorrow" | Consistent due date display

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Raiden Frunk

The option to switch date displays to exact dates. So instead of "1 day ago" it will display the date you set.

February 14, 2020

Michael Van Doorn

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Hey, everyone!
We're looking to hear more about how you'd like to see this functionality implemented and have created a brief survey for your input. 
Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Dianne Foster

I just started using Clickup and it is maddening not to have a choice for real date. Surely CU can do better than Asana. Please make this happen!

Anton Kiebler

Hi ClickUp Team,

It seems to me that you have more “creative” employees such as “figures/data/facts” employees. I understand that it looks “nicer” for some people and it may even be a moment faster even if you don't have today's date in mind. But that's not how anyone works in project management in a structured way. We need the right data! But it has to be good that it is at least not exported that way, but the correct date. That would be fatal for all reports and for the further processing of the data.

Jacques Rossouw

This is a must for any Project Management work!

Jonas Litton

FINALLY. This is so important. I need dates, not "Tuesday" or "Yesterday." Real work needs real dated deadlines.

alaena

I think the team at Clickup is really overthinking this feature. JUST ONLY show the dates, like every other tool. If someone wants relative dates, they can use the nice advanced formula field you made for us. OR they could use clickup automations to update a 'today' field or something. This is a feature that doesn't need to exist and it's just so painful for PM's. Please just let me see the date. Thank you!

Maxwell Destito

This is insane that it has taken this long to even acknowledge this as an issue. Just give us the option to format it how we like! I've created click up in Google Sheets templates that is about to move our entire company off of Click-Up due to this and countless other issues. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13tAo7c14uGQ6_AUdjrtvYHp7FslEcWaw_aa2e9ooBaE/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Original G Sheets template that is essentially click up for everyone else who is insanely frustrated withthis platform.

Helen Gamage

You could always have actual dates but have them coloured to highlight today, overdue and coming up this week - similar to what already happens but you could highlight the upcoming this week in another colour...

Tomoya Oowaki

Currently, when you hover over a relative date such as "Today," the full date appears floating. If the full date is displayed, I would like the relative date to appear when you hover over it.

TaeLynn Perez

Tomoya Oowaki I really like this idea. We could even expand the hover relative dates to include "This Wednesday", "Next Friday", etc.

Jason Logsdon

I don’t think “relative dates” are useful.  Toss the concept in the garage. Just have regular dates like 5/10/25 set at the workspace level and travel down the hierarchy.  It’s clear, it takes minimal screen space.  
For those people that want relative dates then they can set that feature  at the workspace level. 
Whatever date format feature is selected, it needs to be consistent throughout and not have one format on this list and another format on that list.

Mara

Jason Logsdon Hi !
I understand your point of view, but I don't agree, I'd like to be able both of these on my workspace depending on the list.
I use different kind of lists in CU, some of them need regular date because relative dates really don't make sense there. 
But for tasks lists, I appreciated to see some of the relatives dates : 'Today' or 'tomorrow' for example pops up and highlights the task, I can't miss it.
I am not always super aware of today's date... if you're in Home or a filtered view it should be ok, but in a long list I find seeing those few relative dates useful.

Krysta Fox

Today and tomorrow are the most important Could you give us 10/05/25 Today, 11/05/25 Tomorrow. Or today and tomorrow are colour coded or given a little icon, but they show the date

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