[Pidgin] #10720: Date change not displayed in XMPP log files spanning multiple days

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#10720: Date change not displayed in XMPP log files spanning multiple days
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 Reporter:  piggin                                                  |        Owner:  deryni   
     Type:  defect                                                  |       Status:  new      
Milestone:                                                          |    Component:  libpurple
  Version:  2.6.3                                                   |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  time stamp timestamp date chat window log file logfile  |  
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Comment(by piggin):

 > While it does not directly replicate what you are attempting to
 accomplish, the Message Timestamp Formats plugin will allow you to have
 date information for every line of chats/IMs.

 Oops, I just noticed the titlecase. So actually it was an exact plugin
 name ("Message Timestamp Formats"). Had I known about this plugin before
 filing this bug report, I would have only complained about the *tricky*
 inconsistency between what is displayed and what is logged. Deceitfully
 tricky in that it doesn't log what it implicitly promises to log. Yeah,
 I'm using the loaded word because I counted on that displayed behavior and
 now I have many log files that will need to be fixed manually, which will
 be impossible to do accurately in quite a few cases. :(

 However, the plugin is a little noisy. Simply marking date changes (both
 in the conversation window AND in the logs) would be much better. So I
 hope this will be fixed. By the way, was there a time (like, before this
 plugin existed) when Gaim was always saving dates (for every message) in
 logs by default (although not necessarily showing them in the conversation
 window)?

 And an unrelated question: why does it automatically switch status from
 "pending" to "new" whenever I post a message?

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