Re: no Date header: shown as Jan 01

[Nelson Ferreira <nelson.ferreira@bigfoot.com>]

"Dan" == Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:

    Dan> Gnus is a weakling newsreader in that if a message doesn't
    Dan> have a Date header, Gnus will say Jan 01 in the summary, at
    Dan> least in the Drafts folder.  Stop lying about age... say
    Dan> "???" perhaps instead. 

Try this in your .gnus

(defun gnus-user-format-function-y (header)
   "Show Outlook-style dates in summary line"
   (or (ignore-errors
	 (let ((message-time (date-to-time  (mail-header-date header)))
	       (now (current-time)))
	   (if (time-less-p now message-time)
	       "Future"
	     (let ((message-age
		    (- (time-to-seconds now) (time-to-seconds message-time))))
	       (if (< message-age (* 24 3600))
		   (format-time-string "%R" message-time)
		 (if (< message-age (* 7 (* 24 3600)))
		     (format-time-string "%a, %d" message-time)
		   (if (< message-age (* 365 (* 24 3600)))
		       (format-time-string "%d-%b" message-time)
                       (format-time-string "%d-%m-%y" message-time)))))))) 
       "????"))

(setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%9uy%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n")



-- 
Nelson Ferreira