From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75920 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed default change: Show the lapsed time instead of the date Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:38:09 +0100 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: References: <87mxmpkdu2.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295941171 19164 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2011 07:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:39:31 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24272@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 25 08:39:24 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 1PhdUp-0006ml-7b for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:39:23 +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 1PhdU4-0002UQ-6Y; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:38:36 -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 1PhdU1-0002UI-7a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:38:33 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhdTw-0005AO-KZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:38:32 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhdTu-0004vb-Gd for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:38:26 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhdTu-0006UQ-DC for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:38:26 +0100 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net ([81.56.191.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:38:26 +0100 Original-Received: from rpluim by lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:38:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T/7/H3z1MSn0nJIV+xslELcz5u8= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75920 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > I think reading the raw date header is pretty much useless, so I propose > to make the following default change: > > (setq gnus-treat-date-lapsed 'head) > > And, in addition, default to keep it updated. It'll be like all Web > 2.0, only in Emacs: > > (gnus-start-date-timer) -1 I like my dates to be absolute, it causes less mental shifting for me. Robert (unless this is a Lars-posting-drunk-joke, in which case: very funny ;) )