Restore relative dates in Mail

Nov 10, '04 07:49:00AM

Contributed by: wsdr

I feel silly submitting this one, but since I spent 20 minutes trying to find the answer, I figured I might save someone else some time.

A client emailed me that he lost his relative dates in his "Date Received" column in Mail. All he could see was the numeric date (and not "Today" or "Yesterday"). I remembered seeing a pref somewhere for "Use relative dates," and so went looking for it in Mail-->Preferences (not there), so I went poking around the "International" and "Date & Time" preferences panels (nope). Then it hit me ... maybe this was a column sizing issue. I tried shrinking my own "Date Received" column and sure enough only numeric dates appeared (11/7/04). Problem solved.

Additional Moral-of-the-Story: I would not have wasted my time had I actually SEEN the clients screen instead of going by his description.

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