This one caught me out the other day. I suddenly noticed that my Date Received column in Mail was only showing the dates, not the times. I could have sworn it used to show the times as well!

I hunted around in the Preferences but couldn’t find any option to display times as well as dates.

Eventually the penny dropped. The solution? Click the right edge of the Date Received column header, and drag to the right to expand the column. The times magically reappear! Mail cunningly displays just the date if the column is only wide enough for the date; make the column wider, and it has room to display the time as well.

(As you might imagine, the Date Sent field behaves in the same way.)

A nice UI touch, but it stumped me for a while there! Maybe I just needed more coffee…

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