date_format DOES affect %d in the index, IFF you're actually using
%d. Probably you're using %{} instead. Please check you actual
index_format closely. Note the default index_format does not use %d.
On Monday, 21 August 2000 at 08:58, Dave Pearson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:42:15 +0100, Dave Pearson wrote:
> > > According to section 6.3.27 of the mutt manual (I'm running 1.2.5i here) the
> > > variable `date_format' "controls the format of the date printed by the
> > > ``%d'' sequence in ``index_format''".
> > >
> > > Further, section 6.3.73 says that the %d and %D sequences display the date
> > > and time of a message "in the format specified by ``date_format''".
> > >
> > > However, it would appear that `date_format' doesn't (quite rightly?) work
> > > for all uses of the `index_format' sequences.
> >
> > Would it? Not to me.
>
> To quote section 6.3.27:
>
> ,----
> | 6.3.27. date_format
> |
> | Type: string
> | Default: "!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z"
> |
> | This variable controls the format of the date printed by the ``%d''
> | sequence in ``index_format''.
> `----
>
> if it doesn't say that it will affect `index_format' what does it mean when
> it says that it controls the format of the date printed by "%d" when used in
> `index_format'? In the tests I've done here it doesn't do that. Using %d and
> changing `date_format' has no affect on the display of an index.
>
> To quote section 6.3.73:
>
> ,----
> | %d date and time of the message in the format
> | specified by ``date_format'' converted to
> | sender's time zone
> | %D date and time of the message in the format
> | specified by ``date_format'' converted to
> | the local time zone
> `----
>
> This, again, suggests that the index display of dates can be controlled by
> the variable `date_format'.
>
> > > Is this a documentation bug?
> >
> > I don't see any bug here.
>
> The bug I'm thinking of is the one above, where it says that it affects
> `index_format' when it doesn't appear to do so.
>
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