[Mailman-Developers] Dates again

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:09 PM +0000 2004-11-24, Ian Eiloart wrote:

>  I think that development focus should be on displaying threads properly,
>  not on "fixing" dates that the system can't possibly know are right or
>  wrong.

	There is already a "thread sort" mode within the archiving 
system.  There is also a "date sort" mode.  If we're going to have a 
given mode, it makes sense that we'd want to be able to display that 
mode "correctly".

	My issue has more to do with doing that as a display-only matter 
as opposed to "correcting" the messages on input and before they are 
sent back out to the list recipients, as well as being recorded in 
the archives.  Where we do the "correction" is as important as the 
correction itself.

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