[Alpine-info] YYYY-MM-DD Date Format?

[Bret Busby]

On 2/5/23 23:03, Bret Busby wrote:

> On 2/5/23 21:55, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

>> On Tue, 2 May 2023, Simon Harrison wrote:

>>

>>> Is it possible to show the date received column in this

>>> format:

>>>

>>> YYYY-MM-DD

>>

>> Yes. Press M S C and go to "Index Format", there press "?" for help 

>> and copy the default into the field and replace the original value of 

>> SMARTDATETIME24 token by DATEISO.

>>

> In the available tokens, is SMARTDATETIMEISO24 , but, it does not 

> display the date in the ISO format.

> 

> Would it be possible, for the next release of alpine, to add a token 

> that displays the date in the ISO format, and, for all messages, the 

> time, in 24 hour format format; for example, DATEISOTIME24, or, 

> DATETIMEISO24 ?

> 

> One advantage of this, would be that, when a daily, or, otherwise 

> event-driven, no more than once daily, message is sent, it would mean 

> that monitoring the time of day that the message gets sent, when it gets 

> sent - for example, my Post Office Box has the facility where I get 

> notified by email, when mail is available for collection from the Post 

> Office Box, and, having time display, for all days, would enable 

> monitoring, by viewing the folder message index, of the time of day, 

> that the message has a history of being sent.

> 

> That, in conjunction with the message dates displayed in the index, in 

> ISO format,would be useful.

> 

> Thank you in anticipation.

> 


I think that I have worked it out; I have
STATUS MSGNO DATEISO TIME24 FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJKEY(67%)

That pretty much achieves (for me) an ideal index display (as much as 
can be obtained in the current incarnation of the software - a 
particular functionality was lost between a couple of previous versions).

...
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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