I found several posts on the forum where people plead to replace weekdays with dates.
Users want this in due dates, comments, etc.
I prefer seeing a real date instead of “Tomorrow”, “Monday” … I can imagine that others prefer it the way it is now.
So Asana should offer a choice. In General Settings (for the domain) one should be able to set a preference for weekdays or real dates. This setting should be used througout Asana (like in task history, due dates, etc).
I believe it must be an Asana design principle to limit use of settings (to simplify for both users and themselves) for better or worse. My proposal doesn’t require a setting so perhaps could be an easier request.
Please allow us to configure whether we see the day of week or the date! This is really making it hard for me to use Asana for all the reasons others have listed above.
The user should definitely be able to choose. Some in our group trying to set dates found the lack of choice very off-putting and surprising for a modern app.
Adding my voice (frustration) again to this issue. Please look at this screenshot. I need to decide which file to attach. I have one that is relative to a training on 12/10/2023 and one to a training on 13/10/2023 (European date setting). My tasks tells me that the training is … Friday. Now I have to lookup which of the two dates is Friday.
I’m CONTANTLY having to click on the due date to pop open the calendar to see what the date is for “Thursday” or whatever. This is so unnecessarily foolish.
Why cannot the default setting be “Thurs April 1”? There’s plenty of room there to always show the data and day of the week.
Hmm, just started using Asana at my job for a specific project (an editorial production schedule) and already wondering if this is going to work because of this very issue. Might just revert to a regular excel spreadsheet and skip Asana altogether. It appears to be a very bizarre design choice that there seems to be no chance of getting changed since I am finding similar requests going back two years now?
I would like this to be a choice also. For me, as a project manager with time poor team mates I want to show DAY as well as date. So TUE 11 May for instance.
Just 11 May isn’t good when you are building in days for client review and feedback gathering for instance - I have to have a calendar open on a separate screen also which defeats having Asana!
Similarly months, I think, would be better as MMM so that American vs EU time formats are no longer a problem.
E.g. TUE 12 DEC 2024 or TUE DEC 12 2024 instead of 12/12/2024 which could be either.
The amount of time I’ve wasted clicking on useless words like “Friday” to see what the actual date is…
When you’re working across multiple continents/timezones, planning weeks and months in advance, it’s very confusing. Why not just give us this incredibly simple option?
I know it is annoying, but I will keep coming back on this issue. The way Asana handles dates is confusing. Here is a list of start and end dates in custom fields for each task.
The way dates are displayed is consistant and predictable, but is in no way easy to use.
If not for al dates (due dates and custom fields), let users at least choose how a date is displayed in a customfield. This may be linked to the browser setting, but I think it would be beneficial for efficient working to see these dates as either dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy or whatever date format you prefer.
