#1093393 alpine: broken date format

Package:
alpine
Source:
alpine
Description:
Text-based email client, friendly for novices but powerful
Submitter:
Thorsten Glaser
Date:
2025-02-03 03:06:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1093393#5
Date:
2025-01-17 23:42:14 UTC
From:
To:
Besides the awful “Yesterday”, “Monday”, etc. (which in itself
is a regression to pine’s always using the “Jan 17” format), it
uses “02/06/18” for older messages, which is just plain broken.

I had a look through the setup screen to check for an option to
configure the date format, which was ENOENT.
#1093393#10
Date:
2025-02-03 02:57:04 UTC
From:
To:
Oh goodie, it sort of honours LC_TIME but sort of doesn’t,
now I have mails from “Jan 14”… which is *still* wrong as
the locale says day before month. “Sep  3” also should be
zero-padded, not space-padded (over here we don’t space-pad
the day of month at all, either unpadded (d. MMMM yyyy) or
zero-padded (yyyy-MM-dd)).

This is with “Disable Index Locale Dates” disabled in (S)etup.

At least somewhat less bad but…

bye,
//mirabilos