There should be an option to display the “days ago” tag or the actual date. The system obviously has the date available to display since it is doing the math to calculate “days ago”. I have to keep opening a calendar to figure out the date since “days ago” is not useful to me.
Not necessary! You can just hover your cursor over the relative date to see the actual date.
This is not to negate this enhancement request but to make things easier for you right now.
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Thanks for the useful tip, Phil!
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I completely agree. It’s also hard to reference previous notes when they say “X days ago.”
I agree with what everyone else has said here. It’s really inconvenient for tracking when things happened.
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This just added an hour of work to my day as I had to input a large amount of data. Needless to say, I hate it. What purpose does it even serve?
I wish I had read this post earlier. Pain.
Replace “x-days ago” in Comments with actual date and time
Hello @Hally_Bashor,
I merged your post into an existing feedback request thread. Don‘t forget to vote.
It’s been a few years. Where are we at with this?
I agree wholeheartedly with the need for comments to be displayed with the date rather than “X days ago”. Is there any kind of measurable feedback survey where we can submit this request so it might get some action instead of a comment forum?
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As a security professional in my organization, I’m frequently having to take screenshots or make PDFs of Asana tasks to show to our auditors. Auditors usually need to see exact date details of when a task was completed. However, recent changes to a task show up as “X days ago” or similar when looking at the task activity. Though it is possible to hover over this timestamp to reveal the exact date and time of the activity, that does not help me when I’m taking a screenshot or creating a PDF of a task.
It would be awesome if there were an option in Asana to always show the date and time in a tasks activity log instead of the “X days ago” type of timestamp.
I definitely agree with this! I don’t like seeing “Yesterday” or “6 days ago” I would love to simply see the date and time. Don’t forget to vote, as I did!
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Above a comment, it will say that the timeframe of when the comment was posted. Instead of it saying something vague like “x number of days ago”, an actual date would be helpful. Sometimes I need to refer to the specific date, and so I end up having to actually manually count the number of days back to figure out what date the comment was posted.
Hi @Christina16, if you place your cursor over the “x number of days” it will actually show you the exact date and time of the comment.
I can get a link to vote for this. It is surprising that this is not a feature already.
Welcome, @Samuel42,
Click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the purple Vote button; that’s the quickest and most effective way to express your support for a request.
Thanks,
Larry
Wow!! Good to know, that I am not alone that feels extremely agitated with ‘X days ago’. It doesn’t make sense in any scenario.
and…I think it’s been 5 YEARS since the OP posted about it, and still no improvement!!!
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It seems like this has been a request for multiple years with no resolve other than the hover option so just adding my vote that the system should absolutely show the actual date of a comment.
In the meantime, I manually add the date to my task comments for easy tracking (ex: 3/18 - Left comment for Asana to update dates in system). Shouldn’t be necessary, but at least I can track dates easier. 
New Asana User here. My team and I use the website.
I’ve searched the Help, used AI chatbot help, and searched these forums for how to change date display settings from relative to absolute across the whole project/system. But I am thinking that this apparently this doesn’t exist still? The last big posts in the forum show 2022.
Thanks for any workaround tips also!