On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 04:00:05PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:14:35PM +0100, Konrad Vrba wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > could somebody please advise how I can change the default time format,
> > which is displayed when I view my messages? At the moment, I see only
> > Month and day (ie, Aug 21). But I would like to see the year aswell,
> > as I am using mutt for reading through old archive of maildir, which
> > goes several years back.
>
> Do you mean the timestamp in the index view (when you enter a mailbox)?
> If so, look at $index_format in the manual. You can specify display the
> sender's time using %{fmt} where fmt is an strftime format string.
I have this index_format:
set index_format="%Z %{%e.%m.%y %H:%M} %-15.15F %s"
which translates to lines like this one:
L 14.02.13 14:14 Konrad Vrba Time Format
Hope this helps,
christoph
>
> There is also a variable $date_format, but I'm not sure what it does.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
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> Suvayu
>
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