From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12106DE17AA for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:16:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.125 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.125 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.125] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EG7Orh8O8MEl for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gitolite.debian.net (gitolite.debian.net [87.98.215.224]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08D446DE1003 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by gitolite.debian.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQuyJ-0002Kr-P3; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:15:23 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 3647 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:15:15 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Tomi Ollila , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH] emacs: show local date next to Date: in case value differs In-Reply-To: References: <1427132722-20346-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> <87vbhf2zqk.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.20.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 12:15:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvxrfsjx.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:16:23 -0000 Tomi Ollila writes: > Now I took a little better look why the 'relative' date is not enough for > me is that it doesn't always show the local date (it shows like > (28 mins. ago) or (March 30)). If these were (28 mins. ago (07:22)) and > (March 30 16:20) then it would be better (w/ +0300 that might be marginally > more useful in general but perhaps something that can be lived without). Going back to this thread after a long time, what about an option to show dates always in local absolute time only? This would be compact, and somehow easy to decode. Or more generally, choose a TZ to display all dates in? d