[qgnus 0.17] bug in gnus-article-date-lapsed

[qgnus 0.17] bug in gnus-article-date-lapsed

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

I tried putting 

(add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-date-lapsed)
(setq gnus-visible-headers 
      (concat gnus-visible-headers "\\|^X-Sent:"))

in my .gnus, and it is indeed nifty!
(gnus-start-date-timer just bugged me though.)

However, because some systems have their clock in the future (or
elsewhere), bad times are bound to reach you.  This is handled
gracefully for all values except current and unknown times, where an
extra newline is inserted, making the header break in half, causing no
end of mayhem, chaos and tears.

This fixes it (Night of the long patches):

*** gnus-art.el~        Wed Nov 26 17:44:34 1997
--- gnus-art.el Wed Dec  3 17:05:37 1997
***************
*** 1362,1370 ****
           num prev)
        (cond
         ((null real-time)
!       "X-Sent: Unknown\n")
         ((zerop sec)
!       "X-Sent: Now\n")
         (t
        (concat
         "X-Sent: "
--- 1362,1370 ----
           num prev)
        (cond
         ((null real-time)
!       "X-Sent: Unknown")
         ((zerop sec)
!       "X-Sent: Now")
         (t
        (concat
         "X-Sent: "

Cheers,
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk

Re: [qgnus 0.17] bug in gnus-article-date-lapsed

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> writes:
> (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook 'gnus-article-date-lapsed)

Speaking of which:  Would it be possible to retain the Date header,
maybe as X-Date?  Sure, X-Sent is great, but sometimes you'll need a
date as well.  If only for April ;-)
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk

Re: [qgnus 0.17] bug in gnus-article-date-lapsed

[Andy Eskilsson]

/ Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> wrote:
|
| Speaking of which:  Would it be possible to retain the Date header,
| maybe as X-Date?  Sure, X-Sent is great, but sometimes you'll need a
| date as well.  If only for April ;-)

Or some simple flash thingy sort of:
	X-Note: *Warning* 1st of april, take the contents with a grain
                of salt (as if you would worry about it anyhow)

Hmmm.. integrating calendar into Gnus in some way.. 
	X-Note: This mail was posted on larsi's birthday, score +10k
	X-Note: This article was posted on the day Lincoln were shoot 
                score -100k

sort of.. Naah :-) 

	/andy