From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76267 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That new date header... Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:53:02 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <43vd11qqqp.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: <87mxmdy4o5.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296734390 22132 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2011 11:59:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:59:50 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24618@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 03 12:59:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkxqi-0003S4-Jd for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:59:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkxqc-0002XK-NQ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:59:38 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkxqb-0002X2-E5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:59:37 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkxqZ-0007tE-VF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:59:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f44.google.com ([209.85.214.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkxqZ-0007ZL-4V for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:59:35 +0100 Original-Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so1535463bwz.17 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:59:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization :message-id:references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=5UEb9B2cCLmZfjOSCjB/WgX1TO+RnmK5Dm9JFsjdS5U=; b=QX8uBsgOM4bYusWb/412IOSwb/vBjDCYK8gPeYNAaHhKX4MSG5NLyJJQx19Toj2124 yxXtek7bcX4Hvmh+QUjp30JQAUztmZdLgF/XzzggSmhS7AdmTRWICsZk71C7JY4U/Kin lQ0dTGS0C940EyfAGI0gdrM6BHPwWghVpU9HU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:organization:message-id:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=DaDy/NXkqe+q7C0P1uZyw1B1KPco4S7gwWbK4wYdJiCdhlBbgLyTdllAFq359h5bDf Oc6PMcHSOFu5kQF3TSuat3Flx++fFUhIQ2qCQ+L/RwuFC+kKCOiCxYwWRjSCyroHWB2g A4zSd4Q+dNneFzQaC5HqHWvWeBOoSEWyp3Uh0= Original-Received: by 10.204.135.217 with SMTP id o25mr4374279bkt.15.1296734369260; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:59:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q18sm385753bka.3.2011.02.03.03.59.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:59:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87mxmdy4o5.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:10:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76267 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: > I've seen the thread(s) on it, but haven't paid much attention, until I > suddenly discovered when wading through the backlog of messages in a > filtered out mailing list yesterday. > > In such cases it is really really useful to immediatly see how old the > message I'm looking at...:-) Almost everyone agrees with that I think. The issue for most is the animation not being on. There are also methods documented/wikied on how to do that using the summary format functions. e.g I adopted the one which says "today" "yesterday" etc in the left of the summary line. (setq gnus-user-date-format-alist ;; Format the date so we can see today/tomorrow quickly. ;; See http://emacs.wordpress.com/category/gnus/ for the original. '( ((gnus-seconds-today) . "Today, %H:%M") ((+ 86400 (gnus-seconds-today)) . "Yesterday, %H:%M") (604800 . "%A %H:%M") ;;that's one week ((gnus-seconds-month) . "%A %d") ((gnus-seconds-year) . "%B %d") (t . "%B %d '%y"))) ;;this one is used when no other does match Cheers r.