From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76096 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:40:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87sjwd9bbd.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> References: <87mxmpkdu2.fsf@gnus.org> <87k4htjmvk.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87pqrkadi9.fsf@gnus.org> <87ei80glix.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87oc73usw4.fsf@netarch.haselwarter.org> <87sjwf9q6h.fsf@gnus.org> <87tygu2bhq.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296236489 11471 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 17:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:41:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24448@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 28 18:41:25 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 1PisK0-0006Ao-DB for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:41:20 +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 1PisJC-0001cq-S6; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:40:30 -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 1PisJA-0001cd-5g for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:40:28 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PisJ8-0006Un-Oq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:40:28 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PisJ6-0007ru-I5 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PisJ4-0005bf-6h for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:40:22 +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 ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:40:22 +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 ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:40:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 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: Exon Shell threat Skipjack industrial intelligence ISEC benelux X-Meat: Head cheese User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WHnqu6S0fUXGJxucq0OV5CzE9Eo= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76096 Archived-At: just make it reasonable by default (I find the $actual_date $three_most_relevant_elapsed scheme perfect as default) and have an option that takes a `format-time-string'-like parameter for those who want to fiddle. I don't think you could cover all the cases, so just offer some sensible options and let the user hack if he wants something special... -- Philipp Haselwarter