How to Disable "Yesterday" Time Reference for very Recently Modified Files?

Hello,

I’ve noticed an issue in my system (Zorin OS, Ubuntu-based with Wayland) regarding file modification timestamps. When working on files in the evening, I can see the exact modification times (e.g., 11:45 PM). However, once the clock strikes midnight, the system replaces these times with the “Yesterday” reference for files that were edited just a few minutes or hours ago.

This behavior is inconvenient because it makes it harder to distinguish between files modified late at night and those modified earlier in the day.

Is there a way to:

  1. Disable the “Yesterday” label for recently modified files and display exact times instead?
  2. Customize the threshold for showing “Yesterday” (e.g., only after 12 hours diff)?

I’d appreciate any guidance or settings tweaks to make the system display exact times consistently.

Thank you!

nautilus has issues on gitlab but also some settings in menu bar…

but if it is not nautilus but something different…

Nautilus has been displaying the time in those cases since this change, which is part of version 45 and newer.

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Version 46 has detailed date option in the preferences:

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