Subject: Re: bug#44707: 27.1; Add gnus-article-date-user user-defined examples

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:39:46 +0100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> (info "(gnus) Article Date") says
>
> ‘W T s’
>      Display the date using a user-defined format
>      (‘gnus-article-date-user’).  The format is specified by the
>      ‘gnus-article-time-format’ variable, and is a string that’s passed
>      to ‘format-time-string’.  See the documentation of that variable
>      for a list of possible format specs.
>
> Without examples the user is a loss at figuring out how to set this.
>
> Maybe one does
> (setq gnus-article-date-user "%a, %d ...")
> but probably not.

The manual describes a command: `W T s', so I'm not sure why you're:

> (set-variable 'gnus-article-date-headers '(user-defined))

In any case, `gnus-article-date-user' has a default value that is pretty
self-explanatory.

Closing.

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