New Years breaks relative/nearby date formatting by reporting everything as last year

[seansfkelley]

Using a supported version?

• I have searched searched open and closed issues for duplicates.
• I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.

Overall summary

The convenient relative date formats like "Monday" or "Yesterday" are replaced by full dates due to the new year changeover. Today, 1/1/2025, shows this in the sidebar:

Steps to reproduce

1. Send a message on 12/31.
2. Wait until 1/1.
3. See that it says "Dec. 31 YYYY" instead of "Yesterday".

Expected result

Relative/nearby date formatting takes precedence over full dates.

Actual result

Full dates take precedence over relative/nearby date formatting.

Screenshots

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Signal version

7.36.1

Operating system

macOS 15

Version of Signal on your phone

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Link to debug log

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[jamiebuilds-signal]

I actually already have a spreadsheet tracking the timestamp formatting differences across the different Signal client apps. Since I'm tracking this elsewhere I'm going to close this issue now. But thank you for the report