From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76009 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Haselwarter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed default change: Show the lapsed time instead of the date Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc73usw4.fsf@netarch.haselwarter.org> References: <87mxmpkdu2.fsf@gnus.org> <87k4htjmvk.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87pqrkadi9.fsf@gnus.org> <87ei80glix.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296085847 12763 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 23:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:50:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24361@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 27 00:50:44 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 1PiF8N-0008PG-9i for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:43 +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 1PiF8H-00062Z-1j; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:50:37 -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 1PiF8F-00062I-6L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:50:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiF8D-0006YT-K0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:50:35 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiF8C-0004fe-Tj for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:32 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiF8C-0008LL-Gr for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:32 +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 ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:32 +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 ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 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: Tony Blair government munitions Craig Livingstone CIDA bce X-Windows: there's got to be a better way. User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SrHRlv8/y7U0WEDs+E9H2x3TgNo= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76009 Archived-At: "RS" == Reiner Steib writes: RS> On Tue, Jan 25 2011, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> Julien Danjou writes: >> >>> +1 I like that \o/ -1 I'd like to still have absolute date >>> >>> Maybe have both? >> >> I'm using a Vaio P, and I find anything that takes vertical screen >> real estate to be an annoyance... >> >> But using a 8 inch 1600x800 screen isn't a very common case, though. 1024x600 here. Columns? You can have 'em. But _don't you dare touch my lines_.. ---8<---[snipped 12 lines]---8<--- RS> As other pointed out, if weeks is > 0, we should probably drop RS> (hours,) minutes, seconds. RS> | Date: 2010-11-29 04:47:28 GMT (8 weeks and 2 days ago) RS> | Date: 2011-01-25 21:18:22 GMT (10 hours and 17 minutes ago) I like this. It is informative, readable and it makes sense. *want* RS> As we see that people have different preferences, the whole thing RS> should be a customizable format string, so that people can e.g. use RS> local or original time zone or drop seconds, etc. RS> Bye, Reiner. +1 -- Philipp Haselwarter