On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:39:39 +0100
Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23 2014, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 
> > * Summary line format
> >  gnus-summary-line-format "%0{%U%R%z%}%3{│%} %1{%d%}
> > %3{│%}%4{%-20,20f%}  %3{│%} %1{%B%}%s\n"
> >
> > gives this in the summary -
> > R. │ 23-Mar │  Cron Daemon           │ * Cron
> > <root@london> /usr/bin/apt-get update
> >
> > which is very good except its not showing the time of posting. How
> > do I get that please?
> 
> "&user-date;" is useful:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> gnus-user-date-format-alist is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
> Its value is shown below.
> 
> Documentation:
> Specifies date format depending on age of article.
> This is an alist of items (AGE . FORMAT).  AGE can be a number (of
> seconds) or a Lisp expression evaluating to a number.  When the age of
> the article is less than this number, then use `format-time-string'
> with the corresponding FORMAT for displaying the date of the article.
> If AGE is not a number or a Lisp expression evaluating to a
> non-number, then the corresponding FORMAT is used as a default value.
> 
> Note that the list is processed from the beginning, so it should be
> sorted by ascending AGE.  Also note that items following the first
> non-number AGE will be ignored.
> 
> You can use the functions `gnus-seconds-today', `gnus-seconds-month'
> and `gnus-seconds-year' in the AGE spec.  They return the number of
> seconds passed since the start of today, of this month, of this year,
> respectively.
> 
> You can customize this variable.
> 
> This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
> version 24.1 of Emacs.
> 
> 
> Value: (((gnus-seconds-today)
>   . "%H:%M")
>  ((+
>    (* 60 60 24)
>    (gnus-seconds-today))
>   . "Yesterday")
>  ((* 60 60 24 5)
>   . "%A")
>  ((gnus-seconds-year)
>   . "%b %d")
>  (t . "%Y/%m/%d"))
> 
> Original value was 
> (((gnus-seconds-today)
>   . "Today, %H:%M")
>  ((+ 86400
>      (gnus-seconds-today))
>   . "Yesterday, %H:%M")
>  (604800 . "%A %H:%M")
>  ((gnus-seconds-month)
>   . "%A %d")
>  ((gnus-seconds-year)
>   . "%B %d")
>  (t . "%b %d %Y"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 

Thanks, but I have this -
 (setq  gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number (not gnus-thread-sort-by-date)) ; inverted sorting: newest threads on top

	  gnus-treat-buttonize t			; Add buttons
      gnus-treat-buttonize-head 'head	; Add buttons to the head
      gnus-treat-emphasize t			; Emphasize text
      gnus-treat-display-smileys t		; Use Smilies
      gnus-treat-strip-cr 'last			; Remove carriage returns
      gnus-treat-hide-headers 'head		; Hide headers

	  gnus-boring-article-headers '(empty followup-to newsgroups many-to reply-to)
      gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers 'head ; -Hide boring headers
										;gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some        ; prevent teared threads by loading older but read postings
      gnus-fetch-old-headers 250 ; this should achieve the same result, without the excessive waiting for some groups
	  
gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "* "
      gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "+-> "
      gnus-summary-display-arrow t
      gnus-summary-line-format "%0{%U%R%z%}%3{│%} %1{%d%} %3{│%}  %4{%-20,20f%}  %3{│%} %1{%B%}%s\n"
      ;gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%d %I%(%[ %s %]%)\n"
      ;gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n" ; default
)

but I can't see how to add '&user-date;' in the middle of a list? Perhaps I'm being dim?

Sharon.
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