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nathan_f77 on Aug 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you should not be displaying relative dates.

2012 days ago is a really bad example. A proper implementation should display something like 'created: 5 years, 6 months ago'.

self on Aug 24, 2012 [–]

Yes, that's exactly what my gnus does. An email I just looked at has

X-Sent: 4 weeks, 19 hours, 13 minutes, 20 seconds ago

(Of course, it being gnus, the time updates while the message is in the article buffer.)

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