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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH] emacs: show local date next to Date: in case value
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Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> 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