I would like to suggest that mhl, show, mhshow, scan and any other mhl program
that displays a message, all have a flag, that would take an argument
specifying how the time of the message was to be displayed. It would specify
one of:
The time of the message, here, where I am
or
The time of the message in the message
The time in the message in a time zone specified as in RFC 5322
I don't know that this one is worth very much, since "here" and
the env variable, TZ, or some such, can do the same.
or
The number of days and decimal parts of a day since the message was
sent.
I don't know what to say about about 23 or 25 hour days.
I thought about asking for alternative time units, like years or
hours, but decided that that was overkill.
Given this, I don't much care what the default would be, but I would think for
new users, "here" would be best.
I suppose that all this could be done with mh-format, but then it would be
beyond the ken of ordinary folks, and it would be harder to vary.
Norman Shapiro
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