Open Bug 92326 Opened 25 years ago Updated 15 years ago

Envelope should always show the detailed date/time in the "Date" header field

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

The date/time of news/mail message received today always display the time only. It is good in the thread pane but the Envelope pane should always show the detailed Date information.
I agree.
*** Bug 156901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
After 3 1/2 years, this bug isn't even confirmed yet?
I think the problem is that most of the discussion about this bug has been under bug 139091, which has been marked as "invalid", but that this bug does not refer to bug 139091. Tom
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
I disagree with having always the full date in envelope. There will be people who don't like that as you don't like the current behaviour. But two things: 1. A workaround for this bug could be to set mailnews.display.original_date to true. This was introduced in bug 118899 to make the senders time zone available to the recipient. But a side effect of the implementation (verbatim copy the date field from the mail header) is that it's always the full date. 2. Make the envelope date configurable like the date column in thread pane is. I also received a request for that by mail. I have a patch here that does this and it's fairly trivial though it doubles some code, maybe this peaces can sourced out to some common function. Question is, should it be configurable by the same prefs as the date column (mail.ui.display.dateformat.*) or some separate? Or should it use the former if its own (say mail.ui.display.dateformat_header.*) isn't set?
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: esther → message-display
The preference mailnews.display.original_date = true gives the full date/time information to the printed output. It should be the default value.
Severity: normal → enhancement
(In reply to comment #7) > The preference mailnews.display.original_date = true gives the full > date/time information to the printed output. It should be the default value. I do not have this variable in my seamonkey 2.2 in "about:config": Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110725 Firefox/5.0 SeaMonkey/2.2 :(
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