Answers.Body: <p>Until this feature get implemented, I think I'll go with the following workaround that I'm using right now.
  It's based on  <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/hooks-reference#getEntryTableAttributeHtml" rel="nofollow">getEntryTableAttributeHtml</a> hook where I reformat the date value to match the user locale preferences.</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code>public function getEntryTableAttributeHtml(EntryModel $entry, $attribute)
  {
      if ($attribute == 'postDate')
      {
          $localeData = craft()-&gt;i18n-&gt;getLocaleData(craft()-&gt;language);
          $dateFormatter = $localeData-&gt;getDateFormatter();
          $format = $dateFormatter-&gt;getDatepickerPhpFormat();
          return ($entry-&gt;postDate ? $entry-&gt;postDate-&gt;format($format) : '');
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or simply</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code>public function getEntryTableAttributeHtml(EntryModel $entry, $attribute)
  {
      if ($attribute == 'postDate')
      {
          return $entry-&gt;postDate;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which will return the date in Y-m-d format regardless of locale.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Currently not possible as it's hard-coded into Craft.</p>
  
  <p>Probably worth adding as a <a href="http://feedback.buildwithcraft.com" rel="nofollow">feature request</a>, though!</p>
  
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Body: <p>In control panel, specifically when displaying elements table under any section, postDate and expiryDate values are in relative format i.e. Today, Yesterday, Monday, Wednesday, ..etc.</p>
  
  <p>How can I disable that and display them in dates only?</p>
  
Tags: <control-panel>
Title: How can I disable relative dates in elements index?
ThreadText: # How can I disable relative dates in elements index?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-03)
  
  In control panel, specifically when displaying elements table under any section, postDate and expiryDate values are in relative format i.e. Today, Yesterday, Monday, Wednesday, ..etc.
  
  How can I disable that and display them in dates only?
  
  **Tags:** control-panel
  
  
  ---
  
  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-04-03. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  Until this feature get implemented, I think I'll go with the following workaround that I'm using right now.
  It's based on [getEntryTableAttributeHtml](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/hooks-reference#getEntryTableAttributeHtml) hook where I reformat the date value to match the user locale preferences.
  
  ```php
  public function getEntryTableAttributeHtml(EntryModel $entry, $attribute)
  {
      if ($attribute == 'postDate')
      {
          $localeData = craft()->i18n->getLocaleData(craft()->language);
          $dateFormatter = $localeData->getDateFormatter();
          $format = $dateFormatter->getDatepickerPhpFormat();
          return ($entry->postDate ? $entry->postDate->format($format) : '');
      }
  }
  
  ```
  
  or simply
  
  ```php
  public function getEntryTableAttributeHtml(EntryModel $entry, $attribute)
  {
      if ($attribute == 'postDate')
      {
          return $entry->postDate;
      }
  }
  
  ```
  
  which will return the date in Y-m-d format regardless of locale.
  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-03. Score: 1
  
  Currently not possible as it's hard-coded into Craft.
  
  Probably worth adding as a [feature request](http://feedback.buildwithcraft.com), though!
  
  
  ---
  
  