It's still 2020. :-(

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, David

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 08:13:59 -0500, David Haguenauer wrote:
> Hi Alan,

> * Alan Mackenzie <acm at muc.de>, 2021-01-04 12:59:34 Mon:
> > I'm now seeing dates from 4 January as 2021, those of 3 January and
> > before as 2020.  It is almost as though some piece of software thinks the
> > year begins on 4th Jan, not 1st Jan.

> > Here's a short section of my inbox, with mails from various time zones
> > straddling midnight:

> > 164997 Os    3 Jan 2020  Michael         (  92 / 3.5K)     └─>
> > 164998 N     4 Jan 2021  Dr Rainer Woito (  45 / 1.4K)       └─>

> It looks almost as if you have a date display format that uses the
> year from the Posix week, instead of the year from the day.

> Indeed, week 53 of 2020 ended on Jan 3; today, Jan 4, starts week 1 of
> 2021.

> Perhaps check for a custom display format?

Indeed, that is my problem!  My index_format is defined by:

    set index_format = "%4C %Z  %{%e %b %G}  %-15.15L (%4l / %4c) %s"
                                         ^

, and that %G means "ISO 8601 week-based year".  What I need is %Y.  All
from the man page for strftime.  I haven't tried it yet, but I'm certain
this change will bring me back the real year for 2021-01-01 -> ...-03.

Thank you indeed!

> -- 
> David Haguenauer

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).