Description
Currently, Confluence Analytics displays the "Last viewed" value in a relative time format (for example, "5 minutes ago", "2 days ago", "about 1 month ago"). There is no option to view or switch this to an absolute timestamp (for example, 2024‑03‑20 14:35).

For reporting, audit, and compliance use cases, customers need to see an exact date and time for when a page was last viewed by a user. Relative values are difficult to reconcile with external logs, export to reports, or use for precise compliance evidence.

This is especially critical in the following places:

• Page Analytics → Viewers table ("Last viewed" column)

• Space Analytics → Content tab (any "Last viewed" or similar columns)

• Any other Confluence Analytics views or reports that surface "Last viewed" timestamps.

Customers (for example, Micron) have explicitly requested:

• Absolute timestamps for "Last viewed" for clearer reporting

• Consistent formatting across all analytics surfaces

• Ideally, a way to choose between relative and absolute display.

This request is conceptually similar to JRACLOUD-41506 (requesting absolute timestamps in Jira issue view), but specifically targets Confluence Analytics "Last viewed" fields.

Proposed solution
Add support for absolute date/time display in Confluence Analytics for "Last viewed":

1. Absolute format for "Last viewed"
   1. Display "Last viewed" as an absolute date and time (for example, 2024‑03‑20 14:35) using the site/user locale and time zone settings.
   2. Ensure the format is clearly readable and consistent with other date/time displays in Confluence Cloud.
2. Optional toggle or preference
   1. Provide a way to switch between:
      1. Relative time (e.g. "5 minutes ago", "about 1 month ago"), and
      2. Absolute date/time (e.g. 2024‑03‑20 14:35).
   2. This could be:
      1. A per-user view toggle within Analytics UIs, and/or
      2. A site-level / space-level admin setting that defines the default for all users.
3. Consistency across Analytics
   1. Apply the chosen behavior consistently across:
      1. Page Analytics (Viewers table)
      2. Space Analytics (content listings)
      3. Any future analytics or reporting surfaces that include "Last viewed".

Example use cases

• Compliance / audit trails: Teams must demonstrate exactly when specific users accessed specific pages, and need to align this with external security, SIEM, or DLP logs that all use absolute timestamps.

• Internal reporting: Admins and content owners export analytics to spreadsheets or BI tools; relative timestamps like "2 days ago" quickly become meaningless once exported or viewed later.

• Cross-time-zone collaboration: With distributed teams, relative times are ambiguous when compared across time zones. An absolute date/time clarifies when access occurred.

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Workarounds
Currently there is no direct in-product workaround to display "Last viewed" as absolute date/time within Confluence Analytics UI. Users must manually estimate from the relative value, which is not precise and does not scale for reporting or compliance use cases.