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Does the Date: field in the article buffer really need to show the time
elapsed down to the number of seconds?  I find it hard to imagine that
anyone needs this information down to the number of seconds, and the
constant updating is distracting.

No other mail or news program that I'm aware of does this.  I'd suggest
suppressing the number of seconds---at the very least if more than one
minute has elapsed.