281587 - Show day of week in mail list if within one week

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[John Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

I'd like to see the list of mail displayed with the day of the week (if within
one week of today's date) instead of just a date, as was done in the old Mozilla
suite.  This was just a nice feature that made things a little easier to locate.
 For example, assuming that today is Tuesday 2/8, mail now shows like this:
Subject    Sender      Date
test 1     joe smith   2/7/2005 5:40 PM
test 2     sam jones   2/5/2005 6:22 AM
test 3     abc xyz     1/10/2005 12:12 PM

It was really nice to have the mail displayed like this:
Subject    Sender      Date
test 1     joe smith   Monday 5:40 PM
test 2     sam jones   Saturday 6:22 AM
test 3     abc xyz     1/10/2005 12:12 PM

Thanks for considering this enhancement!


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[John Schneider]

Evidently, no one else considers this worth implementing again, as it was in the
Moz suite.  I can accept that, but would still like, if at all possible, to keep
this on a "wish list".
Thanks to everyone for all their hard work.  It is greatly appreciated!

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(Windows) Tools => Options =>
(Unix) Edit => Preferences =>
(Mac) Thunderbird => Preferences =>
=> Advanced => Config Editor

Filter on "dateformat" (without quotes) and notice the following settings:
mail.ui.display.dateformat.today
mail.ui.display.dateformat.thisweek
mail.ui.display.dateformat.default

(if any of them is not present, use Right-click => New => Integer to create it.)

Their (integer) values have a common set of meanings, as follows:
0 no date (time only)
1 your locale's "long" date format
2 your locale's "short" date format
3 YYYY/MM (no day-of-month)
4 Abbreviated day-of-week name in the language of your locale

For more details, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format

Comment 4

[John Schneider]

Thanks Tony!  This is exactly what I was looking for.

Not sure what to do about this "bug", since it obviously isn't one.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks Tony!  This is exactly what I was looking for.
> 
> Not sure what to do about this "bug", since it obviously isn't one.

Well, if you agree with my WORKSFORME resolution, just turn the status to VERIFIED.

Comment 6

[John Schneider]

Done.  Thanks again Tony!