time or date

Because mails are transported by machines and these machines often know quite an accurate time, we know the reception of messages down to the second. But do we need this information? My experience: seldom. More importantly, I consider the differentiation between dialogue and correspondence to be an important aspect of my mail processing habit. Whereas time is important for dialogues, to know the date of a correspondence is typically good enough. mailxel offers the choice to display time details. For the reasoning above, the option is turned off be default.