OSX High Sierra no options for relative d…

OSX High Sierra no options for relative dates in Finder

Ever since updating to High Sierra, but Finder file dates are now all in normal date format. I used to have relative dates enabled, so my dates on files were shown as Today, Yesterday etc

I went to View > Show Finder Options but there are no longer options for enabling relative dates.

Relative dates were really handy for me.

Why was this option removed? I see lots of posts on disabling relative dates in previous OSX versions, but was it really that unpopular that it was removed entirely?

Is there a way to re-enable relative dates that I have missed?

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1), Internal 256GB SSD, internal 1TB HD

Posted on Nov 11, 2017 1:58 PM

Posted on Nov 14, 2017 5:11 PM

Just so I'm being as specific as possible, I'm looking at the time stamp in the file preview in finder.

That should say Yesterday and display the time next to it. Instead, it shows the date.

This is what I see on my MacBook Pro that still has normal Sierra on it.

See it says Today?

As I mentioned, I went into my Show view options, and there is no option to show relative date. I even set both Arrange by and Sort by to Date Modified.

Still no option to choose Relative Dates in High Sierra.

Yes, the column in finder then splits and groups the files under headings with relative dates, but this is not what I want.

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