Re: [patch] age depending date-format

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

"Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@amdocs.com> writes:

>>gnus-user-date formats the date accordingly to 
>>gnus-user-date-day
>>gnus-user-date-week
>>gnus-user-date-old
>
>Can we have gnus-user-date-month and gnus-user-date-year as well?

I'm just working on it. I'll do it the Gnus way: As configurable as
possible. Therefor I'll do it like ShengHuo suggested:

gnus-user date calculates the difference between the current date and
the date it gets as argument. Then it looks in a variable
gnus-user-date-format-alist for the first element with a value bigger
than the calculated difference and format the date according to the
specified value.

gnus-user-date-format-alist will look like this:

(defvar gnus-user-data-format-alist
 '((seconds-today "%k:%M")
   (604800 "%a %k:%M")
   (seconds-this-month "%a %d")
   (seconds-this-year "%b %d")
   (t "%b %m '%y)) ;;this one is used when no other does match
  "Blah blah")

The seconds-* are (will be) functions which return the seconds since
today 00:00, since the 1st of this month 00:00, since the 1st of january
of this year 00:00.

So today the function would do the following:
gnus-user-date("Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:34:39 +0200")=13:39
gnus-user-date("Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:34:39 +0200")=Sun 13:39
gnus-user-date("Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:34:39 +0200")=Sun 17
gnus-user-date("Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:34:39 +0200")=Sep 30
gnus-user-date("Sun, 14 Oct 1999 13:34:39 +0200")=Oct 14 '99

Are this nice default values? I don't really know about the
international conventions for this.

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