I would like to suggest that mhl, show, mhshow, scan and any other mhl program that displays a message, all have a flag, that would take an argument specifying how the time of the message was to be displayed. It would specify one of:
The time of the message, here, where I am or The time of the message in the message The time in the message in a time zone specified as in RFC 5322 I don't know that this one is worth very much, since "here" and the env variable, TZ, or some such, can do the same. or The number of days and decimal parts of a day since the message was sent. I don't know what to say about about 23 or 25 hour days. I thought about asking for alternative time units, like years or hours, but decided that that was overkill. Given this, I don't much care what the default would be, but I would think for new users, "here" would be best. I suppose that all this could be done with mh-format, but then it would be beyond the ken of ordinary folks, and it would be harder to vary. Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers