Hi,
Is it possible to customize the date/time format of the “Received” column?
Thanks for your help.
Andy
Are you on MS-Windows or a Mac? I’m on MS-Windows and my dates show in the standard numeric format from my MS-Windows settings, big to small, yyyyy-mm-dd.
I also found this old discussion that may help
https://forum.emclient.com/t/how-can-i-configure-the-date-format-of-the-received-column/59158/25?page=2
What I am seeing:
Hi,
Yes, I use Windows 10 (eM Client 10.1.4417)
You can use this setting to display the complete date/time.
Menu ➜ Settings ➜ Mail ➜ Read ➜ Message List ➜ [
] Show full Date
Thanks Andy, did you find a solution to your question?
I’d also like to show time in 24 hour clock. Interesting, em client is based in Czech Republic so I would expect display of date and time would be offered in ISO standard format in addition to how time and dates are commonly displayed in the USA.
That’s enough for me.
However, I don’t know how to give the date/time its own format. It would be desirable in any case.
For the message list, if you haven’t chosen to show full date, it is displayed like this:
Today’s messages have only the time. So 19:07
The rest of the current week’s messages have the day plus the time. So Mon 16:52
The rest of the current year have the day plus an abbreviated date. So Mon 20/2
Older have the full date. So 12/03/2022
In all views that date format is taken from your OS short date format. So whatever regional settings you have in the OS, you will see in eM Client.
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Maybe I’ll be sorry to mention this but the format that is being used in eM Client is bugging me.
I have, in the last 10 days migrated my em Client from a Windows 10 PC that has lost the ability to connect to the internet to a brand new Windows 11 PC. The Windows date formats on the old and new PCs are in the correct format for the UK and are set for “English (United Kingdom)”. The dates in eM Client on the old PC were also in the correct format namely: Wed, 20/01/2025 20:50
However, on the new PC, eM Client is displaying the same date as Wed, 20, 01, 2025 20:50
Not only do the commas offend me, the date takes up valuable column space with an extra space character between the day and month and between the month and year taking up valuable column space.
I have checked the Windows time settings and there is no problem with date display in Windows 10 or 11. However I have been unable to meaningfully change the format of any dates displayed in eM Client (version 10.1.4588 (f11e2ab)).
I note that all dates displayed in eM Client are rendered in the “erroneous” format, even those read from within the email header in all emails I’ve examined which are formatted thus: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:59:08 +0000. So eM Client is re-rendering the header date within the email. It’s even worse than that - the date displayed at the top of an email has the day name rendered twice (even those read from the archive): Sun Sun, 19, 01, 2025 17:33
All I really want though is the forward slashes restored. As an English senior citizen I find the comma displeasing/annoying. It’s what one is used to, so I hope you can help. The ideal would be to incorporate a means of styling dates within eM Client itself rather than suiting itself and maybe, if it feels like it, the system settings.
Peter Oates
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I’m sorry not to have replied before now but I’ve been away from home.
I’m sorry to say this but you are wrong about date display for the Received column, at least in my copy of em Client - see my earlier message for details of the version. My eM Client Settings page under Message List has a tick against Show full date (whatever that actually means?). My short date setting in Windows 11 (Windows updated to today) is shown below:
In addition, all days are shown by the full erroneous date format i.e. no shortening with only time for today etc as detailed in your reply. Both of the images above were copied from my PC just now i.e. today. The erroneous date format is displayed for all received dates throughout the whole of eM Client, even the archive.
I would be grateful for a way of making my copy of eM Client show dates using my short date format. I would also like to keep that format for all dates e.g. Thu, 27/02/2025 18:32 or even omit the comma after the day. The distinctions with abbreviated dates is just too fancy and bothersome to my mind.
Sincerely
Peter Oates
Further to my note about dates on Windows 11, I’ve just looked at em Client on my Android phone and that shows dates as 2/27/2025 6:05 PM - which is not the English (UK) format as it shows the month before the day and does not use 24 hour times.
Peter Oates
Further to my problems with date formats in em Client, I think I have found the cause of the problem.
I have discovered that there are two ways to set the Short Date format in Windows 11.
If you go through Microsoft’s recommended route: Settings > Time & language > Date & time, it is possible to change the time and date manually but it is not possible to set or format the day name (Mon, Tues, etc). This will render a date thus 03/02/2025. If your short date is already set up with the day name, this setting route will retain the day name but you can’t amend it.
If, however, you go through Control Panel > Clock and Region > Region > Formats then click the button “Additional settings…” you can change date, time and number formats. It is also possible to set the format of the day name and number, month and year including the separator(s) between those values. It is also possible to set more than one character as a separator eg a comma then a space. These can be applied to both short and long date formats. Back in em Client the received date will reflect the short date format you have set with one exception: the value set between day name and day value will be used for all separators through the whole date.
Thus if you set the separator between day name and day number as , (a comma) then em Client will use that separator between all date values as in Mon,03,02,2025 With a comma and a space it renders Mon, 03, 02, 2025
It appears that em Client finds the first separator and then applies that one between all values rather than reading any subsequent separators.
Maybe the next update of em Client will correct this trait and this minor problem will be solved.
Peter Oates