format string: time for today, date for others.
Hi list, Is there a date/time string that show the time only for today's emails but date for else? So, in the index, the emails that got today will show the time only, but the ones that got on other days will show the date and time. -- Regards, Yue Wu Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine China Pharmaceutical University No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
* On 05 Jan 2011, Yue Wu wrote: Hi list, Is there a date/time string that show the time only for today's emails but date for else? So, in the index, the emails that got today will show the time only, but the ones that got on other days will show the date and time. Not in out-of-box mutt. For that you need the date_conditional patch by Aaron Schrab. I don't see a version on the web that is rebased against current mutt but I can send you one if you're comfortable patching and compiling your own mutt. -- David Champion * d...@uchicago.edu * IT Services * University of Chicago
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:32:44PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 05 Jan 2011, Yue Wu wrote: Hi list, Is there a date/time string that show the time only for today's emails but date for else? So, in the index, the emails that got today will show the time only, but the ones that got on other days will show the date and time. Not in out-of-box mutt. For that you need the date_conditional patch by Aaron Schrab. I don't see a version on the web that is rebased against current mutt but I can send you one if you're comfortable patching and compiling your own mutt. If I remember correctly, the date_conditional patch doesn't *quite* let you have a different date/time string for today, rather it gives you a different date/time string for the last 24h. A while back, I wrote a modified version of the date_conditional patch so that it could be used to produce different formats for mails from today, from the current month, from the current year, etc. I haven't gotten around to making it available online, but if you want a copy I'd be happy to mail it to you. Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Mathematics and Quantum Information group Department of Mathematics Complutense University Madrid, Spain email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
* On 05 Jan 2011, Toby Cubitt wrote: If I remember correctly, the date_conditional patch doesn't *quite* let you have a different date/time string for today, rather it gives you a different date/time string for the last 24h. The best documentation I've seen is the changelog entry that I wrote for my mercurial patch queue: Allows you to construct format expressions based on relative dates. This adds conditionality features to mutt's date-formatting operators, so that you can build conditions based on whether the date in question is less than or grater than some amount in the past. Example: %?[1y?less than one yeargreater than one year? Example: %?[3d?less than three daysgreater than three days? This is particularly useful in concert with nested_if. For example, this expression: %[1y?%[1w?%[1d?%[ %H:%M]%[%a %d]%[%b %d]%[%y%m%d] means to show the YYMMDD date for messages older than one year, the mon dd date for messages from one week to one year, the day dd date for messages from 1 to 7 days old, and the HH:MM time for messages under one day old. So it can handle a single split point as it stands (less than 24h, greater than 24h). A while back, I wrote a modified version of the date_conditional patch so that it could be used to produce different formats for mails from today, from the current month, from the current year, etc. I haven't gotten around to making it available online, but if you want a copy I'd be happy to mail it to you. That's what I want as well, but I do it by using date_conditional in conjunction with the more general nested_if patch. Nested_if, as its name suggests, lets you nest mutt's ternary conditionals arbitrarily deep. -- David Champion * d...@uchicago.edu * IT Services * University of Chicago
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
Hi,
* Yue Wu schrieb am Donnerstag, den 06. Januar 2011:
Is there a date/time string that show the time only for today's emails
but date for else? So, in the index, the emails that got today will
show the time only, but the ones that got on other days will show the
date and time.
I use this script:
http://groups.google.com/group/de.comm.software.mailreader.misc/browse_thread/thread/ab966bddc0b42446/421549103438b830?q=#421549103438b830
In ~/.muttrc:
#v+
set index_format=./format_date.sh '%[%s]' |
#v-
#
#!/bin/bash
#
# File: format_date.sh
epoch=$1
if [ $(($(date '+%s') - $1)) -gt 86400 ]; then
echo %4C %Z %{%d.%m.%y} %-15.15F (%?l?%4l%4c?) %?H?[%H]?%s%
else
echo %4C %Z %{ %H:%M} %-15.15F (%?l?%4l%4c?) %?H?[%H]?%s%
fi
#
Andreas
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:20:19PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 05 Jan 2011, Toby Cubitt wrote: If I remember correctly, the date_conditional patch doesn't *quite* let you have a different date/time string for today, rather it gives you a different date/time string for the last 24h. The best documentation I've seen is the changelog entry that I wrote for my mercurial patch queue: Allows you to construct format expressions based on relative dates. This adds conditionality features to mutt's date-formatting operators, so that you can build conditions based on whether the date in question is less than or grater than some amount in the past. Example: %?[1y?less than one yeargreater than one year? Example: %?[3d?less than three daysgreater than three days? This is particularly useful in concert with nested_if. For example, this expression: %[1y?%[1w?%[1d?%[ %H:%M]%[%a %d]%[%b %d]%[%y%m%d] means to show the YYMMDD date for messages older than one year, the mon dd date for messages from one week to one year, the day dd date for messages from 1 to 7 days old, and the HH:MM time for messages under one day old. So it can handle a single split point as it stands (less than 24h, greater than 24h). Yes, but how would you use this to e.g. print only the time for all emails received today, but print the date for all emails received yesterday or earlier? A split point of 24h is no use. If it's currently 10am, say, then all mails since 10am the previous day will display the time only. Whereas what's wanted is all emails since midnight to display the time, and emails prior to midnight to display the date. I don't think this can be done with the date_conditional patch as it stands, because the split point would have to depend on the current time, and I know of no way of putting that calculation into the date-format string. I just modified the time comparisons in my version of the date_conditional patch so that an interval of 1 day implies fractions of a day are discarded before comparing with the current time, an interval of 1 month discards days and below, an interval of a year discards months and below, etc. This lets me display just the time for today's emails, the day and month for this year's emails, and the full date for older emails. That way, I can see at a glance which emails arrived today, which arrived this year, and which are older than a year. (As opposed to which arrived within the last 24h, which arrived within the last 30 days, which arrived within the last 365 days.) A while back, I wrote a modified version of the date_conditional patch so that it could be used to produce different formats for mails from today, from the current month, from the current year, etc. I haven't gotten around to making it available online, but if you want a copy I'd be happy to mail it to you. That's what I want as well, but I do it by using date_conditional in conjunction with the more general nested_if patch. Nested_if, as its name suggests, lets you nest mutt's ternary conditionals arbitrarily deep. Indeed, I use nested_if with my modified date_conditional patch. Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Mathematics and Quantum Information group Department of Mathematics Complutense University Madrid, Spain email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
* On 05 Jan 2011, Toby Cubitt wrote: Yes, but how would you use this to e.g. print only the time for all emails received today, but print the date for all emails received yesterday or earlier? A split point of 24h is no use. If it's currently That's what nested_if is for. Here is the date string from my $index_format: %[1y?%[1w?%[1d?%[ %H:%M]%[%a %d]%[%b %d]%[%y%m%d] that is, if 1y: if 1w: if 1d: %H:%M else: # = 1d %a %d else: # = 1w %b %d else: # = 1y %y%m%d It does work, or I've been misreading my index for the last 5 years. ;) -- David Champion * d...@uchicago.edu * IT Services * University of Chicago
Re: format string: time for today, date for others.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:22:18PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 05 Jan 2011, Toby Cubitt wrote: Yes, but how would you use this to e.g. print only the time for all emails received today, but print the date for all emails received yesterday or earlier? A split point of 24h is no use. If it's currently That's what nested_if is for. Here is the date string from my $index_format: %[1y?%[1w?%[1d?%[ %H:%M]%[%a %d]%[%b %d]%[%y%m%d] that is, if 1y: if 1w: if 1d: %H:%M else: # = 1d %a %d else: # = 1w %b %d else: # = 1y %y%m%d It does work, or I've been misreading my index for the last 5 years. ;) Perhaps I'm being dense here. But if it's 10:00 on the 6 January, and there's an email dated 19:00 on the 5 January, then surely this will display 19:00? But I want it to display Sun 05, because the email is from yesterday, not today. I'm sure your date format does what you want, it's just not what I'm talking about. As far as I recall (it's a long time since I looked at it), the date_conditional patch straightforwardly compares the email date stamp against the current time. The 1d conditional is true whenever the email is dated less than 24h before the current time. That's *not* what I'm after. When the current time is 00:01 on the 6 Jan, I want an email that arrived at 23:59 on the 5 Jan to display Sun 05, even though the email is only two minutes old. Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Mathematics and Quantum Information group Department of Mathematics Complutense University Madrid, Spain email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
