Definitely optional. I personally like the current set up, but can see why others would not.

This would be a very convenient added feature. It is something our staff are annoyed with and frequently request, as we print out physical task sheets sometimes for certain staff and when there is a date listed as "tomorrow" or "Wednesday", it can create major problems.

There is a workaround through formulas and I've gone through the hardship of figuring out the working formula for this. The formula in essence copies the Start or Due date, and formats to mm/dd/yyyy, always. I haven't figured out yet how to add the 3 letters of the month instead of the month number.

If anyone is interested in using this formula, here it is below. Just note, sometimes copying and pasting a formula into the advanced editor doesn't work; sometimes you actually have to manually type it in, which is a pain for long formulas.

START DATE:

CONCATENATE(MONTH(field("Start date")), "/", DAY(field("Start date")), "/", YEAR(field("Start date")), " ", IF(HOUR(field("Start date")) > 12, HOUR(field("Start date")) - 12, IF(HOUR(field("Start date")) = 0, 12, HOUR(field("Start date")))), ":", IF(MINUTE(field("Start date")) < 10, "0", ""), MINUTE(field("Start date")), " ", IF(HOUR(field("Start date")) >= 12, "PM", "AM"))

DUE DATE:

CONCATENATE(MONTH(field("Due date")), "/", DAY(field("Due date")), "/", YEAR(field("Due date")), " ", IF(HOUR(field("Due date")) > 12, HOUR(field("Due date")) - 12, IF(HOUR(field("Due date")) = 0, 12, HOUR(field("Due date")))), ":", IF(MINUTE(field("Due date")) < 10, "0", ""), MINUTE(field("Due date")), " ", IF(HOUR(field("Due date")) >= 12, "PM", "AM"))

We need this as soon as possible, it's terrible to see relative dates when you're managing projects

Note that yyyy-mm-dd is an iso-standard (part of ISO 8601). It's meant to provide a clear, unambiguous, and globally understood way to represent dates. It's also the only way to properly sort items by date.

Relative dates could be an option. But should certainly not be the standard.

This is necessary in Project Management, We can't report to the management the 6 days ago , They need specific Due Date

I second this feature. I need to see the actual dates not a relative date

Yes please get this done. In the edit of the custom field section i should be able to select how i want this date field to be displayed.

I find the way ClickUp displays (relative) dates very annoying and I cannot understand how a feature request with 1.6K comments can take such a long time to be implemented.

Please give us the same flexibility as any other IT tool.

We want to be able to display dates as Relative Dates, Full Dates, mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy, yyyy^mm^dd, mm§dd*yyyy, custom formatted and anything in between.

In my opinion, even the survey is not very useful: simply give us all the options!! Let us choose!!!!!!!

As in any other tool, I want to see all the dates as... dates. And, of course, to be able to choose the desired format (as the "date format" is something not standard all over the world). For me, what makes sense, is to see all the dates on the format: dd-mm-yyyy

I don't want to see "Today", "Tomorrow", etc. This is confusing and has absolutely no advantage.

Showing Fri, Mon, Tomorrow etc. is ridiculous. How is this not fixed yet?