Subj : OXP: mixed date format at listing
To   : Fernando Toledo
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Jan 21 2022 13:17:00

Hello Fernando!

*** Friday 21.01.22 at 10:21, Martin Foster wrote to Fernando Toledo:

 FT>> I have mixed format on listing messages at date column,

 MF> Yeah, so have I.

 FT>> it very weird and get confused for me

 MF> Considering how long I've been using OpenXP and its predecessor, even I
 MF> tend to get confused occasionally. It's something I've learnt to live
 MF> with over the years but never done anything about it. For now, let's say
 MF> it's just a quirk.

 FT>> DD.MM (day and month) and MM/YY (month and year)

 FT>>   360 07.02 Flavio Bessa     Fernando Toledo  -Listado de BBS Latinos
 FT>>   372 13.02 Rodrigo Pelaez  Fernando Toledo  Re: Listado de BBS Lat!
 FT>>   385 01/21 Flavio Bessa    Fernando Toledo  Daily Nodelist proceus
 FT>>   532 04.02 Flavio Bessa    Fernando Toledo  Binkd para DOS
 FT>>   585 04.02 Fernando Toledo Fernando Toledo  Re: Binkd para DOS
 FT>>   282 04.02 Fernando Toledo Flavio Bessa     Re: Binkd para DOS
 FT>>   228 04.02 Flavio Bessa    THIERRY OLMEDO   Binkd para DOS
 FT>> 1243 01/21 Fernando Toledo Flavio Bessa        Re: Husky
 FT>> 1133 01/21 Angel Ripoll    Fernando Toledo     -file echos
 FT>> 1221 01/21 Angel Ripoll    Fernando Toledo     -Husky
 FT>>   883 01/21 Flavio Bessa    Fernando Toledo     -Husky
 FT>> 1594 01/21 Fernando Toledo Angel Ripoll        Re: Husky
 FT>> 3188 01/21 Fernando Toledo  Angel Ripoll        Re: file echos
 FT>> 1657 01/21 Fernando Toledo Angel Ripoll        Re: Husky
 FT>>   760 01/21 Angel Ripoll    Fernando Toledo     -Husky

 FT>> Please!!! can you add support for day, month and year??? (I dont care if
 FT>> will yyyymmdd or ddmmyyyy but almost complete date and optional time
 FT>> will be useful)

 MF> *I* can't do anything about it, so I've passed your message on to the
 MF> developer. As soon as he replies back, I'll let you know what he has to
 MF> say.

Here's his reply .....

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The format DD.MM is used if the message was creatd in the last 12 months.
Otherwise the format MM/YY is used.

The weird sorting in the list results of the fact that messages
aren't sorted by creation date, but by receive date.

So the message created on 2021-02-13 "Rodrigo Pelaez Fernando Toledo Re:
Listado de BBS Lat!" was received before the message created in Jan.2021
"Flavio Bessa Fernando Toledo  Daily Nodelist proceusú".

But anyway, i'll have a look at it to see what could be done.
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Regards,
Martin

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