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      type="topic" id="mail-change-time-format">

  <info>
    <desc>Changing the date and time format in the message list.</desc>
    <link type="guide" xref="mail-layout-changing" />

    <revision pkgversion="2.32.2" version="0.3" date="2012-02-18" status="draft"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
        

  </info>

  <title>Format of dates and time</title>
<p>You can change the format of the <gui>Date</gui> column by setting your preferred format under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Mail Preferences</gui><gui>Headers</gui><gui>Date/Time format</gui></guiseq>.</p>
<p>The placeholders in the format expression are strftime formats. For a complete list of available strftime formats, run <cmd>date --help</cmd> in the <app>Terminal</app> application.</p>
<!-- TODO: Time formats settings for Calendar (calendar-layout-appointment-display), Contacts (Edit>Prefs>Contacts) are split everywhere, probably introduce a guide page linking to these three pages -->
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