Display year in voicemail list

[abqbill]

In the voicemail list, the Date column is clunky and doesn't display the year:

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This is a problem when you keep voicemail messages for longer than a year.

Please update the display of the date so it displays the year, or at least provide the option.

Thanks!

[Snipely]

I have some older voicemails and agree this would not only be useful, but is basic functionality. Please update the date column to show the year. Thank you.

[Robek]

In the meantime, the simplest option is to download voicemails from the 'My Ooma' Voicemail tab, (by clicking the appropriate icon in the 'Actions' column), and to store them locally. The default filenames for downloaded voicemails include the year, month, and date: "vm_YYYYMMDD_UUID.mp3".

There are also a couple of other, (somewhat uglier), workarounds:

• Ooma displays voicemails in reverse chronological order (from newest to oldest); if the user saves at least one voicemail every 12 months, then it is possible to figure out the year for each voicemail from that, by working backwards, from top to bottom, and comparing dates.
• Or, use the browser's "view page source" command (usually <ctrl>-u or <cmd>-u), to show the raw HTML, and search for a given voicemail's name in the 'From' column, followed by its date, as displayed. The surrounding <td> tag includes the month, date, year, hour, and minute. For example:

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    <td>
      ... name in 'From' column ...
    </td>
    <td>
      ... widgets for playing voicemail ...
    </td>
    <td class="text-center" data-date="08_11_2021_11_09_AM">
      <span>Aug-11 11:09 AM</span>
    </td>