Apple Needs To Print REAL Dates on Emails in iOS
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 3/31/2016 1:00:00 AM
Have you ever printed an email using your iPhone?
If you print an email using any iOS device, you'll see that for some reason, Apple doesn't always put the date on top. Instead of the full date and time, as most email Apps do, Apple likes to use a more conversational approach for any date within the last week.
This means that a email received today or yesterday will say something like "Today at 8:52am", or "Yesterday at 12:02 pm" respectively. The other five days of the week will be spelled out like: "Tuesday at 7:05am". While that may sound less official than writing "Wednesday, January 5, 2016 10:27pm", it's infinitely more practical... WHEN YOU PRINT IT ON PAPER.
I discovered this when I read an email I printed that said "Today at 8:52am", on top. I had to stop for a minute and think about it. I didn't remember printing that email today, so I had no idea when I actually printed it. For all I know it was last week... or even last year.
What were they thinking? While it's perfectly okay to use terms like Today for on-screen viewing, anything you print on paper needs the REAL date and time.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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