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Relative date identifier incorrect in an issue's Activity tab

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      "This Tuesday" appears to be incorrectly identified as "Last Tuesday". See attached screenshot.

      Today is Friday 2013-Aug-02. As of now and according to my understanding of relative dates, "last Tuesday" was the Tuesday before this week's Tuesday, i.e. 2013-Jul-23. JIRA seems to be identifying 2013-Jul-30 as "last Tuesday", which I would normally call "this Tuesday" because it is the Tuesday that falls in the current week.

      I find relative date identifiers in JIRA to be inconvenient because they make me look at a calendar or wait for hover text to find out the specific date something happened on, when it should be an effortless thing. Dates are intrinsic to what JIRA does - the management of work over time - and they need to be unambiguous and easy to interpret.

      I just took a straw poll of three adjacent Atlassians. Two of us thought "last Tuesday" was 2013-Jul-23 and two of us thought it was 2013-Jul-30.

      I think it is a good idea to remove relative date identifiers entirely and use specific dates instead.

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            [JRACLOUD-66457] Relative date identifier incorrect in an issue's Activity tab

            Monique Khairuliana (Inactive) made changes -
            Workflow Original: JIRA Bug Workflow w Kanban v6 - Restricted [ 1527461 ] New: JAC Bug Workflow v3 [ 3354017 ]
            Status Original: Resolved [ 5 ] New: Closed [ 6 ]
            jonah (Inactive) made changes -
            Fix Version/s New: 6.1.1 [ 69474 ]
            Fix Version/s New: 6.2-OD-1 [ 69483 ]
            Fix Version/s Original: 6.1.1 [ 36835 ]
            Fix Version/s Original: 6.2-OD-1 [ 36834 ]
            Key Original: JRA-32864 New: JRACLOUD-66457
            Affects Version/s New: 6.0-OD-11/Beta1 [ 69449 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 6.0-OD-11/Beta1 [ 32117 ]
            Project Original: JIRA (including JIRA Core) [ 10240 ] New: JIRA for Cloud [ 18514 ]
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            Workflow Original: JIRA Bug Workflow w Kanban v5 [ 641402 ] New: JIRA Bug Workflow w Kanban v6 [ 663473 ]
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            Kathleen Jacobs added a comment -

            Where would I change this at?

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            James Hazelwood made changes -
            Resolution New: Fixed [ 1 ]
            Status Original: Soaking [ 10041 ] New: Resolved [ 5 ]
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            Assignee New: Roman Tekhov [ rtekhov ]
            Status Original: Awaiting Soak [ 10040 ] New: Soaking [ 10041 ]

              rtekhov Roman Tekhov (Inactive)
              jseverino Jim Severino (Inactive)
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