lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 3 +--

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 590a76a0f8b2a2b8693bacd1318a0975af6e98d3..aad674882d0de236b0dcdec070292581ddc823dd 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -752,8 +752,7 @@ }
 
 sub _msg_date {
 	my ($hdr) = @_;
-	my $ts = $hdr->header('X-PI-TS') || msg_timestamp($hdr);
-	fmt_ts($ts);
+	fmt_ts(msg_timestamp($hdr));
 }
 
 sub fmt_ts { POSIX::strftime('%Y-%m-%d %k:%M', gmtime($_[0])) }