From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76045 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed default change: Show the lapsed time instead of the date Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:38:22 -0800 Organization: Sparta Message-ID: References: <87mxmpkdu2.fsf@gnus.org> <87k4htjmvk.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87pqrkadi9.fsf@gnus.org> <87oc73uv10.fsf@gnus.org> <87ei7zuujm.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296149932 15765 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 17:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:38:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24397@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 27 18:38:48 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 1PiVo0-0004pX-19 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:38:48 +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 1PiVnk-0002kW-WD; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:38:33 -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 1PiVnj-0002kO-Cv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:38:31 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiVnf-00016y-3s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:38:31 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.hardakers.net ([168.150.236.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiVnd-0006wU-AO for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:38:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (wjh.hardakers.net [10.0.0.2]) by mail.hardakers.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0289C2201E for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:38:23 -0800 (PST) Face: 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 i3bRphBM04dZ2dI6yMLjmGFqnIok/cB1YU8sJAACTeuHOd5+lumQHfDM6KyLqEm4aWkkcc1m4PqBewZxBZOg44lT+aJiexDteewboiVhxAjSHxQwhiYJEdCR6tMN1/uckirDRNbsgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: <87ei7zuujm.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:14:37 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76045 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:14:37 -0800, Lars Ingebrigtsen said: >> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800 (18 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds ago) LI> This might be too wide, though. We should aim for less than 80 LI> characters wide... That's sort of why I suggested limiting it to the "two most significant units". However... This is code. So it's actually very possible to say Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800 Hmm... That's 37 chars. I can add to that... Lets try: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800 (18 hours) Yep, still fits... [time marches on and ()s are continued to be matched internally] Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800 (18 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds ago) Yep, that still fits lets try: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:18:22 -0800 (18 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds ago, 14 milliseconds) Nope, that doesn't fit. Revert to the previous and display. *that* would be the best solution. -- Wes Hardaker My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ My Thoughts: http://pontifications.hardakers.net/