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From: Holger Schieferdecker <spamless@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: alpine: date format
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:11:55 +0200
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Am 12.09.2024 um 15:54 schrieb Carlos E.R.:
> On 2024-09-11 21:48, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Mikey dixit:
>>
>>> It is Month/Day/Year(2 digit yr)
>>
>> Ugh, that’s literally the *worst*.
>>
>>
>> Helmut Richter dixit:
>>
>>> The only reasonable way to write a date/time is
>>> YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
>>
>> I fully agree, ISO 8601 FTW.
>>
>> But ISO 8601 would be too wide for the screen, so I’d
>> be okay with what pine does. (The lack of the year does
>> irritate me a little, but it’d still be better than what
>> alpine currently does.)
> 
> I use
> 
> 24-09-12
> 
> YY-MM-DD
> 
> index-format=STATUS MSGNO SHORTDATEISO TIME24 FROM(20%) ADDRESSTO(10%) 
> SIZE SUBJECT(75%)
> 
>      722 24-08-26 23:36 Mail System Internal              (460) DON'T 
> DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA

Interesting, I never tried to set another format for the index lines, I 
even didn't know that it's possible. I'm happy with the default for my 
PC Alpine.

In my case the date is displayed as
   MMM DD (like Aug 30)
for dates in the current year and
   DD.MM.YYYY (like 17.08.2023)
for dates in previous years.

The help on that setting for "Index Format" says the default format for 
the line is

STATUS MSGNO SMARTDATETIME24 FROMORTO(33%) SIZENARROW SUBJKEY(67%)

There are quite a lot of different tokens for date and/or time formats.

Holger