Re: Display Article Date in Article List Window?

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Is there a way to include the date of the article on the article
> > list screen? I have looked in tinrc but do not see an option for
> > this.
> I seem to recall looking at this myself a while back, to find that the
> problem is that the server's summary of articles does not include a
> date - so you can only get the information by reading the article.

this not quite correct, the article summary is (usualy) build based
on the overview data and the standard set of overview fields does
include date.

the main reason why date is not dispalyed except on the article pager
is the lack of space. even if we rewrite the date to some shorter
format it will need something between 6-12 chars
"[CC]YYMMDD[hhmm[ss]]" plus space for a demiliter on each side. thus
we will lose up to ~20% of the screen just for the date.

IMHO the right way to 'fix' this is to make the display format of the
different levels user defined like the quote formats but as this
might be a lot of work and not always easy this has not happend yet.

urs
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