Re: date with timestamps in chat windows

I know that offline messages sent by Yahoo do send the day as well as 
time in the message.  However, currently only the time is shown.  My 
thoughts were to change the algorithm to display the date and time if 
the message was not sent "today".  That way, when you first come online 
and receive all of your messages sent while you were offline, you can 
see when they were sent.

But I haven't gotten to that yet....

Alan

On Feb 12, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Elektron wrote:

>
> On 12 Feb, 2004, at 04:49, Mark H. Anbinder wrote:
>
>>
>> Nik writes...
>>
>>>  Sarcasm aside, I think it would wholly depend on whether ICQ sends 
>>> an actual date along with the message. I'm not sure that it does.
>>
>> I would have expected that Fire was displaying the local system time, 
>> rather than any information coming from the remote user or the 
>> server, so it should be a relatively simple programming task (says 
>> the non-programmer) to let the user specify a preferred format for 
>> the display of the timestamp that may optionally include the date.
>>
>> Ironically, I've just this week been discovering that iChat AV 
>> displays the time of incoming messages using a time that is clearly 
>> NOT the same time my computer's set to. I've been able to tell a 
>> friend "Your computer clock is five minutes slow," only to get an 
>> incredulous "How did you know?!" response.
>
> But does iChat display outgoing messages using someone else's clock 
> too? Probably not. This should cause the time stamps to not always be 
> increasing.
>
> And offline messages are timestamped with the time you log on, IIRC, 
> so Fire clearly doesn't use any time ICQ sends (anyway, any realistic 
> programmer would send a 32-bit date, not a time string or something 
> silly like that).
>
> Perhaps we could set the output with a strftime-like format string. If 
> anything, I'd like to see the date before the nick (because the left 
> edge of the nick will still line up, and dates would also be aligned).
>
> - Purr



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