When does a TB-week start?
Marcel Stör
I have my inbox sorted like [Date, Descending, Group By Sort]. Today,
Wednesday 2010-08-25, the "Last Week" group contains emails received
last Friday, Saturday, Sunday AND Monday (2010-08-23).
Where I live a week starts on Monday and hence, emails from 2010-08-23
should not be placed in the "Last Week" group for the current week.
Cheers,
Marcel
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eLaReF
> Does a TB-week start on Monday or on Sunday or on...?? Is that configurable?
>
> I have my inbox sorted like [Date, Descending, Group By Sort]. Today,
> Wednesday 2010-08-25, the "Last Week" group contains emails received
> last Friday, Saturday, Sunday AND Monday (2010-08-23).
> Where I live a week starts on Monday and hence, emails from 2010-08-23
> should not be placed in the "Last Week" group for the current week.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcel
>
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Doesn't it mean 'In the last week' i.e. 'in the last 7 days', rather
than 'last week'
Marcel Stör
> On Aug 25, 7:22 am, Marcel Stör <mar...@frightanic.com> wrote:
>
configurable?
>
> > I have my inbox sorted like [Date, Descending, Group By Sort]. Today,
> > Wednesday 2010-08-25, the "Last Week" group contains emails received
> > last Friday, Saturday, Sunday AND Monday (2010-08-23).
> > Where I live a week starts on Monday and hence, emails from 2010-08-23
> > should not be placed in the "Last Week" group for the current week.
>
> than 'last week'
No, the group is specifically called "Last Week".
I still think it's a bug in TB.
Ken Whiton
*-* In Article <v-qdnUlr540-levR...@mozilla.org>,
*-* Marcel Stör wrote
*-* About Re: When does a TB-week start?
> On Aug 25, 10:25 am, eLaReF <khimshar-for...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Aug 25, 7:22 am, Marcel Stör <mar...@frightanic.com> wrote:
>
>>> Does a TB-week start on Monday or on Sunday or on...?? Is that
>>> configurable?
It's a "sliding" date, relative to the current date.
>>> I have my inbox sorted like [Date, Descending, Group By Sort].
>>> Today, Wednesday 2010-08-25, the "Last Week" group contains emails
>>> received last Friday, Saturday, Sunday AND Monday (2010-08-23).
>>> Where I live a week starts on Monday and hence, emails from
>>> 2010-08-23 should not be placed in the "Last Week" group for the
>>> current week.
>
>> Doesn't it mean 'In the last week' i.e. 'in the last 7 days',
>> rather than 'last week'
>
> No, the group is specifically called "Last Week".
It's called "Last Week", but what it means is "Most Recent 7-day
Period". It doesn't refer to a calendar week, which is what you were
thinking of. In my TB 1.5.0.14, when I do a "Group By Sort" I see the
following categoties:
[x] Old Mail
[x] Two Weeks Ago
[x] Last Week
[x] Yesterday
"Last Week" contains items from the seven days immediately
preceding "Yesterday", and "Two Weeks Ago" contains items from the
seven days immediately preceding "Last Week". The contents of each
category will change daily, as individual dates "slide" further into
the past.
> I still think it's a bug in TB.
No, it's a bug in your understanding of what "Last Week" means in
this context. ;-)
Ken Whiton
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Marcel Stör
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Thanks for the explanation.
>> I still think it's a bug in TB.
>
> No, it's a bug in your understanding of what "Last Week" means in
> this context. ;-)
Well, if this were an official statement by a software vendor I'd call
it arrogant.
I'm a software developer myself. Whenever a customer asks questions like
I just did, I consider that my software obviously doesn't explain well
enough (through its labels, tooltips, etc. ) what it does or how it does
what it does.
In real life: what do you mean when you tell your friend that you were
in New York "last week"? You most certainly mean that you were in New
York sometime between Sunday/Monday and Saturday/Sunday depending on
when a week starts in your country. Don't you?
=> conceptually there's a huge gap between "Most Recent 7-day
Period" and "Last Week"
Chris Ilias
> On 26.08.2010 10:42, Ken Whiton wrote:
> [...]
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
>>> I still think it's a bug in TB.
>>
>> No, it's a bug in your understanding of what "Last Week" means in
>> this context. ;-)
>
> Well, if this were an official statement by a software vendor I'd call
> it arrogant.
It's not an official statement. The people answering questions in here
are community volunteers.
There is already a bug filed for this at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505981>.
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Marcel Stör
> On 10-08-26 5:39 AM, Marcel Stör wrote:
>> On 26.08.2010 10:42, Ken Whiton wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation.
>>
>>>> I still think it's a bug in TB.
>>>
>>> No, it's a bug in your understanding of what "Last Week" means in
>>> this context. ;-)
>>
>> Well, if this were an official statement by a software vendor I'd call
>> it arrogant.
>
> It's not an official statement. The people answering questions in here
> are community volunteers.
Yes, I'm aware of that and I also appreciate it. Exactly *because* this
was not an official statement I wrote "if this *were* an official...".
English is not my mother-tongue but I'm still quite certain that what I
wrote grammatically means what I meant for it to convey ;-)
> There is already a bug filed for this at
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505981>.
Thanks for the link - I added my comment and vote.