Perhaps I am mistaken but it looks like you are using the compactheaders add-on. If so you need to address the issue to them.

Thanks for the response, @Wayne Mery:

Wayne Mery said

Perhaps I am mistaken but it looks like you are using the compactheaders add-on.

You're right, I did use the compactheaders add-on; so I did "Restart with add-ons disabled", and still the same thing happens - see screenshot:

https://prod-cdn.sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2018-10-10-04-57-02-6c4e17.png

So, the Date field is missing also from the "vanilla" TB 60. Is there a possibility to restore it somehow?

There is a complicated process you can follow to force Thunderbird to display the date on today's emails. But what are you saying? You do not know todays date?

Hi @Matt,

Thanks for your reply!

Matt said

There is a complicated process you can follow to force Thunderbird to display the date on today's emails.

Great - could you (or anyone) link me to a guide for this process, if it exists?

Matt said

But what are you saying? You do not know todays date?

In fact, for the most part, I'm mostly bothered with what day of the week it is, not so much with what is the exact date "today" :)

But more than that, I've been used for so long, to look at that particular area of the screen and expect to find a nicely formatted date, that I've built a "muscle-memory" if you will - so now, whenever I need to double-check the date and look there and don't find it, I get rather frustrated.

The case in point, that motivated me to write this questing, is that I had an old thread (I browse in threaded view), to which a reply arrived "today" (and so bumped the thread to top), but it was discussing a purchase I've made months ago. I found this so incredible, that I needed to check the date - and not finding it there, and having to spend time to check the full headers (with all the cognitive overhead involved in mentally filtering superfluous headers), made me rather unnecessarily irritated.

So if there is a way to restore the display of full date also for "today", that would help me a lot to keep my nerves calm(er) :)

Thanks again!

If it is any help: Without using any addons etc - Default Thunderbird Date/time will use the computer settings. Altering the computer format for short date would get the DAY of week inserted for all dates except Today which by default only shows time. located in Control Panel > Regional and Languages Options

eg: ddd dd/MM/yyyy = Wed 10/10/2018 (followed by time.)