From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76230 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Haselwarter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Date header rewrite Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:10 +0100 Message-ID: <877hdjr4vl.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> References: <87pqrdltsq.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296584632 13046 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2011 18:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:23:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24582@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 01 19:23:48 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 1PkKtH-0000dv-Hv for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:47 +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 1PkKsx-0000DN-OS; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:23:27 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PkKsw-0000DC-P3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:23:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkKsu-0007ib-Kh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:23:26 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkKss-0000qH-Ck for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:22 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkKsr-0000MZ-MU for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from mna75-3-89-83-43-131.dsl.club-internet.fr ([89.83.43.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from philipp.haselwarter by mna75-3-89-83-43-131.dsl.club-internet.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mna75-3-89-83-43-131.dsl.club-internet.fr X-NSA-Fodder: AIMSX IRA Echelon fissionable explosion Cocaine ASDIC PGP Kh-11 Emacs: a compelling argument for pencil and paper. User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qbddITKwLuohhrz9cW4otuOZV/A= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76230 Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > As I hinted earlier, I've now totally rewritten the way date headers are > customised. You can now have as many Date headers as you like. > > This isn't clearly a bug, but I think it is. In the "ago" display, > seconds are omitted if 0. This results in something like > > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:56:53 -0800 (11 hours, 49 minutes, 59 seconds ago) > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:56:53 -0800 (11 hours, 50 minutes ago) > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:56:53 -0800 (11 hours, 50 minutes, 1 second ago) > > I find the seconds coming and going to be distracting. Plus I wonder > if the minutes would go away as well when 0. > > > I have no problem omitting leading hours/days/minutes as zero, and > omitting seconds because there is a day, etc. I am only objecting to > suppressing fields because they are zero. > +1 I'd also prefer if the seconds/the least relevant portion didn't disappear when it's zero; a counter is fine with me, but the changing length of the date string is somewhat distracting. Oh and what happened to months (between weeks and years)? -- Philipp Haselwarter