241901 - UI to configure default date/time display options

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Craig Cockburn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

For mail that is dated today, no date is shown against the mail. Whilst this may
be the default on some Operating Systems, the convention on Windows (e.g.
windows explorer, Outlook etc) is to show the date in all cases. Omitting the
date for 'today' also leads to inconsistencies when mail dated tomorrow arrives
from a timezone ahead (e.g. mail from Australia being read in the US). Having
enquired about this, it does involve some manual editing of the config files to
show the date in all cases. Feel that a simple checkbox saying "Always show
date" or even using the Operating System's default date format would be much
better for the user and avoid the need to make manual edits to the preferences.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read mail dated today.

Comment 1

[Javi Rueda :javirid]

Please check Alexander Ihrig ConfigDate add-on. Looking for "ConfigDate" on the add-ons search feature would show it as its first result. I am not posting here the link as it could lead you to install it on your browser, not on the mail client. Notice that ConfigDate also works on the SeaMonkey suite.

Once installed TB must be restarted. Preferences could be changed from the add-ons list, clicking on Preferences. Once the preference has been changed, a new restart must be done in order to take effect.