270469 - Date is missing on all new emails since install but appears on all old mail imported from Outlook Express

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

In the upper pane where all of my email is shown in a list, the date field is 
not showing the date, only the time, on any NEW emails sent or received. 
The time shows fine, but the date is missing. I like to sort on the date so I 
can find an email that I sent, say a few days ago. But, the field only contains 
the time so sorts on that information are worthless.
Info shown in header of actual email Sent:        "Mon 11/15/2004  4:38 PM"
Info shown in "Date" field in Thunderbird         "4:38 PM                "
Info shown on sample old mail imported from MS OE "Sun 10/10/2004 10:38 PM"

As you can see, all of the date information appears correctly for all of the 
email that was imported from Outlook Express when I installed Thunderbird this 
morning.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. No special method. Continuous and repeatable every time.
2.
3.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

for today's messages, we show the time, and no date. Tomorrow, we'll show the
date for yesterday's messages...Is that what you're seeing?

Comment 2

[Larry Dant]

I have a similar problem. If I add a new item (sent or received), the date 
appears correctly for a few days. Eventually, the list of correctly appearing 
messages gets reduced as items start to lose their dates. 

Comment 3

[Bob]

Please post a solution for this

Comment 4

[janlh]

Problem still not solved in build 20050508.
Will it be solved in W2k ?
Is it working OK in XP Professional SP2 ?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce
this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a
copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and
you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug
(given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more
reproduction information if you have it.

If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not
changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved.
Thank you for your help in this matter.

The latest beta releases can be obtained from:
Firefox:     http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html
Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.