fantastic, that is exactly what I was looking for
many thanks
On 2/14/13, christoph <christ...@kluenter.de> wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Suvayu
>>
>> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
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