431491 - mails are grouped by date relative to today, weeks should be as in calendar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 315114

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Sascha Zirbik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)

don't know if it's a bug - i think it would be better to group the mails by date oriented to the real calendar like in outlook
Example: Thunderbird shows me a mail received today(Wednesday) under the line "today", a mail received yesterday under "yesterday" but a mail received on monday  
under "last week".
It would be also nice to see the day-Name next to the date...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.sort by date
2.group by sort
3.
Actual Results:  
mails are grouped by date relative to today

Expected Results:  
i think it should group the mails by date oriented to the real calendar like in outlook

Comment 1

[ovidiu]

I just changed 
-general to front end, as this is rather UI issue
-os to all, as this is generally available
-severity to enhancement, as this works, but it could be better ..

if you don't agree on some, change back. I'd say especially to consider:

I see the point and possible confusion related to this relative dates
"last week relative to today" vs "last week as in calendars". And I agree with it. (thus specified in the description the "week" issue, as that is the very point..)

Well, that precise idea is already in bug 315114