Re: Proposed default change: Show the lapsed time instead of the date

[Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

LI> But I'm wondering: Why would you want to see the Date header at all?
LI> I'm curious.  Personally, it tells me nothing, especially what with all
LI> the different time zones and stuff.  What's interesting to me is how old
LI> the message is, not whether it was posted at 9:55 pm on a Tuesday.

I've had the X-Sent support on for years.  But occasionally I do convert
back to the original header, frequently to quote to someone when they
wrote something.  Or for other reasons I can't remember.  I don't do it
*often* but I do read it.

Here's another option though: combine them into a single line.

  X-Sent: 18 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds ago
  Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800

=>

  X-Sent: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800 (18 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds ago)

     or

  X-Sent: 18 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds ago (Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800)

All fits on one line.  Though I think for the combined mode I'd drop the
seconds part since it's a bit too long.  Maybe always use the right two
significant units (eg 14 years, 2 months) and drop everything after that?



[As for time-zone concerns: a huge amount of my mail is distant and
 timezones do affect things.  However, I have a huge amount that is all
 local too so they're in the same timezone.]
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