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Display Teams chat message with date stamp rather than relative day
Unfortunately, there's no built-in setting within Microsoft Teams to directly force the display of dates in chat messages instead of the relative "today" or "yesterday" format. Teams prioritizes this relative format for quick readability in most contexts.
Why Teams Does This:
The "today" and "yesterday" format is designed for quick communication. In a fast-paced chat environment, seeing "yesterday" is often more relevant than seeing a specific date. It helps people quickly understand the context of the conversation.
'In a fast-paced chat environment, seeing "yesterday" is often more relevant than seeing a specific date. '
A complete rationalization of a bad UX. Seeing the specific date and time is way more relevant than "Yesterday" and especially in a fast-paced environment. I need more info, not less.
Are users considered to be too dumb to read timestamps which we do all day everyday in every other application we use?
