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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024, Helmut Richter wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Sep 2024, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
>> alpine uses *two* completely bogus date formats:
>> one for recent mails (“Yesterday”, “Saturday”, etc.),
>> one for older mails (“08/10/23” but is this d/m/y, y/m/d
>> or something even worse?).
>
> The only reasonable way to write a date/time is
> YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
>
> Unique interpretation, and sorted date strings are chronological.
>
> Whatever a software offers as time display options users might find
> convenient, there should always be the option to use this format for *all*
> dates, even if they happen to be "today", "Easter Monday", "last
> Halloween" or something else.
>

As far as I know, the source is available for you to implement that. 
Create a patch, and I'll happily apply it to my own alpine.

Personally, the dates in alpine do not disturb me much.

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  Re: alpine: date format Mikey <Mikey.Smith@aol.com> - 2024-09-10 19:30 +0000
  Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-11 10:48 +0200
    Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-11 18:11 +0200
      Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-11 21:39 +0200
    Re: alpine: date format Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2024-09-11 19:48 +0000
      Re: alpine: date format "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-09-12 15:54 +0200
        Re: alpine: date format Holger Schieferdecker <spamless@gmx.de> - 2024-09-13 09:11 +0200
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            Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-13 23:04 +0200
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