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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:33:08 -0400
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I want a date format for the summary buffer that adjusts to the time of 
the message like Mozilla's newsreader. Mozilla does the following

Posted today->         10:48 AM
Posted before today->  10/14/2002 10:22 PM
Posted after today ->  10/17/2002 11:27 AM

This is nice because the dates are small for recent messages, which are 
the majority of the messages I see.

I'm using Gnus 5.09. I can handle emacs-lisp in small doses but I've 
never written a large chunk of emacs-lisp code.

Michael