[Alpine-info] YYYY-MM-DD Date Format?

[Bret Busby]

On 2/5/23 23:24, Bret Busby wrote:

> On 2/5/23 23:03, Bret Busby wrote:

>> On 2/5/23 21:55, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

>>> On Tue, 2 May 2023, Simon Harrison wrote:

>>>

>>>> Is it possible to show the date received column in this

>>>> format:

>>>>

>>>> YYYY-MM-DD

>>>

>>> Yes. Press M S C and go to "Index Format", there press "?" for help 

>>> and copy the default into the field and replace the original value of 

>>> SMARTDATETIME24 token by DATEISO.

>>>

>> In the available tokens, is SMARTDATETIMEISO24 , but, it does not 

>> display the date in the ISO format.

>>

>> Would it be possible, for the next release of alpine, to add a token 

>> that displays the date in the ISO format, and, for all messages, the 

>> time, in 24 hour format format; for example, DATEISOTIME24, or, 

>> DATETIMEISO24 ?

>>

>> One advantage of this, would be that, when a daily, or, otherwise 

>> event-driven, no more than once daily, message is sent, it would mean 

>> that monitoring the time of day that the message gets sent, when it 

>> gets sent - for example, my Post Office Box has the facility where I 

>> get notified by email, when mail is available for collection from the 

>> Post Office Box, and, having time display, for all days, would enable 

>> monitoring, by viewing the folder message index, of the time of day, 

>> that the message has a history of being sent.

>>

>> That, in conjunction with the message dates displayed in the index, in 

>> ISO format,would be useful.

>>

>> Thank you in anticipation.

>>

> 

> I think that I have worked it out; I have

> STATUS MSGNO DATEISO TIME24 FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJKEY(67%)

> 

> That pretty much achieves (for me) an ideal index display (as much as 

> can be obtained in the current incarnation of the software - a 

> particular functionality was lost between a couple of previous versions).

> 


One thing that I did find, is that the TIMEZONE token appears to not 
work - it displays the timezone of "-0000", regardless of either the 
timezone of from whence the message was sent, or, the timezone of the 
receiving computer. So, all messages, regardless of the timezone from 
which they originate, and, regardless of the timezone of the computer 
receiving the messages, have the timezone displayed, of "-0000".

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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