(BWDIC!) Defaults for *datefield{-markout-older}* (Debian #855582; r.ductor)..

(BWDIC!) Defaults for *datefield{-markout-older}* (Debian #855582; r.ductor)..

He writes

 |As a complete s-nail/mailx/mail newby I was really scaried by the headers \
 |my firs h showed,
 |the time ordering and year of the messages was compleately unclear.

 |I took me one hour of googling and a lot of patience to dive in the \

And i will write, among others,

  I see, sorry for that!  The manual of v14.8 misses the link to
  *datefield*, but v14.9 already includes it, so you will have
  a direct reference chain from "On reading mail, and interactive
  mode" over *headline* to *datefield*, which i think is ok: it will
  be hyperlinked if the output format supports it, so you could get
  there really fast.

  The global /etc/mail.rc, or /etc/s-nail.rc i think it is on
  Debian, includes a commented-out example for *datefield* and
  *datefield-markout-older*, already in v14.8, but now that i look
  again there is no link to *headline*, which i will change in
  a minute!

But while doing so i realized that this is really a no-go
behaviour, noone at all is interested in the date that the From_
line contains, and i also never ever used that one.

So simply drop the entire nail.rc stuff, and assign default values
which also fit into the default field width that the default
*headline* reserves for date and time (with year).