From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76265 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Date header rewrite Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:50:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqrdltsq.fsf@gnus.org> <87ei7s1e86.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <87k4hkqo1o.fsf@gnus.org> <871v3p69ij.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296733829 19466 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2011 11:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:50:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24617@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 03 12:50:24 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 1Pkxhf-0007dR-AK for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:50:23 +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 1PkxhQ-0002TM-UO; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:50:08 -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 1PkxhP-0002T8-By for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:50:07 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkxhL-0007hx-8u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:50:07 -0600 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkxhK-0007QD-7q for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:50:02 +0100 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id 1320916072; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:50:01 -0500 (EST) X-Hashcash: 1:20:110203:ding@gnus.org::ltnlBI02mLOU7A8u:0000Gtzc In-Reply-To: <871v3p69ij.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:13:08 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76265 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Greg Troxel writes: > >> So I propose: >> >> variable to say how many date/time components to show. Currently this >> is 3, but I would default to 2. >> >> variable to suppress other than MSD when zero. currently this is t, >> but I would argue the default should be nil. > > I think this is way, way more customisation than what a frivolous > feature like this warrants. The problem is that the hard-coded defaults you chose are viewed as too flashy by many. So if you don't suppress zero MSD, and change to 2 components then probably there wouldn't be critical mass in wanting it more complicated. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1KlmkACgkQH9p66AmO1g76JQCfewXQMnPJJK6PcNigCFknwSnf 5SwAn0IT68H3cy3Fq3yx/itRWgznJE0G =LFy4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--