Doc Brown to the white courtesy phone, please

[cellio]

As part of a system upgrade at my shell provider, I'm now using Alpine to read mail instead of Pine. Pine showed me plain old dates/times in the list of messages, but Alpine tries to be clever and I haven't yet figured out how to turn it off. So instead of a date it'll say "Yesterday", or "Monday", etc. Very annoying, but it did produce a laugh

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[cellio]

And the answer is... in the configuration options, set "index format" to "STATUS MSGNO DATE FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJKEY(67%)" (from here, down the page some). Yeah, that was obvious. :-)

[dr_zrfq]

Many laughs from both me and montuos!

[lensedqso]

I remember when gmail first came out it had different timestamps on different servers and it was common to see mails sent "-1 minutes ago"