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   Fernando Toledo to August Abolins   
   Re: OXP: mixed date format at listing   
   24 Jan 22 13:35:34   
   
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   MSGID: 1468.fidonetpoints@4:902/26 26541112   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/005633b1f Jan 17 2022 GCC 6.3.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/005633b1f Jan 17 2022 GCC 6.3.0   
   BBSID: DOCKSUD   
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   El 22/1/22 a las 10:30, August Abolins escribió:   
   > Hello Martin!   
   >    
   > ** On Friday 21.01.22 - 14:36, your wrote to me:   
   >    
   >   AA>> ..Personally, I like the mixed use of DD.MM and MM/YY   
   >   AA>> It clearly helps to eyeball the messages that are clearly   
   >   AA>> older than 12 months.   
   >    
   >   MF> Well yes, there is that about it but it still tends to confuse me   
   >   MF> occasionally, must be my age 8-/   
   >    
   > In retrospect, I thought that the use of DD.MM and MM/YY (for   
   > older than 12 months) was very clever.  It's really not unlike   
   > what I see what some email programs try to do to help sort   
   > messages in a larger visual way.  Besides, we (OXP users) also   
   > have the option to use the wonderful S)earch features to   
   > identify messages within a date range.   
   >    
   > If there were a change in the DD.MM vs MM/YY, I would rather   
   > have the option to retain that presentation as a config setting   
   > instead of replacing it with something to "fix" it.   
   >    
   I agree, I do not consider it an error but a possible option to configure   
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