Change date and time formats in Netscape Communicator 4.8
Netscape Messenger 4.8 will honor the Mac OS' settings for the numeric dates and times it displays. You can change the date and time formats with the Date & Time control panel. There, you can add leading zeros and the century and so on; any application which follows the system's guideliness will pick up on this.
The "relative dates" for Messenger will apply a filter to the dates and times encoded in the messages themselves. Netscape Messenger is thus interpreting the dates and times from the e-mail messages. It displays those dates for mail received in the last week differently than it does for the dates of older messages.
For messages received in the last week, it will show a relative date consisting of either "today" or the three-letter day name (such as "Mon" or "Thu"), followed by the time. We are not aware of a way to turn off this relative date feature. The results are not permanent because Netscape Messenger is only interpreting dates found in the messages. Thus, the relative dates should change, as the range of messages affected by relative dates will be different with each passing day. Only the last week's worth of messages will be formatted this way.
