* Converting dates to org-mode dates
@ 2007-11-12 13:20 Chris Randle
2007-11-12 13:30 ` Rainer Stengele
2007-11-12 15:02 ` Bastien
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From: Chris Randle @ 2007-11-12 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi
I've been converting a file that contains dates in this format:
dd/mm/yyyy
to Org-mode inactive format. It's pretty simple using regular expression
search & replace, except that I get this far:
[yyyy-mm-dd ]
and can't find a way to put the day of the week in there. Individually,
I can do a 'C-u 0 S-right' on each date, and that shifts the date 0 days
into the future, and fills in the day of the week.
This also impacts on cases (unusual and unlikely, I grant you) where you
might have an incorrect day:
[2007-11-12 Tue] (should be Mon)
As far as I can see, that will stay like this until the date is shifted
in some way.
Is there any way to parse an entire region/buffer for Org-mode dates and
refresh their day of the week text?
--
Chris Randle
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
Org-mode 5.13h
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* Re: Converting dates to org-mode dates
2007-11-12 13:20 Converting dates to org-mode dates Chris Randle
@ 2007-11-12 13:30 ` Rainer Stengele
2007-11-12 15:02 ` Bastien
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rainer Stengele @ 2007-11-12 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Chris Randle schrieb:
> Hi
>
> I've been converting a file that contains dates in this format:
>
> dd/mm/yyyy
>
> to Org-mode inactive format. It's pretty simple using regular expression
> search & replace, except that I get this far:
>
> [yyyy-mm-dd ]
>
> and can't find a way to put the day of the week in there. Individually,
> I can do a 'C-u 0 S-right' on each date, and that shifts the date 0 days
> into the future, and fills in the day of the week.
>
> This also impacts on cases (unusual and unlikely, I grant you) where you
> might have an incorrect day:
>
> [2007-11-12 Tue] (should be Mon)
>
> As far as I can see, that will stay like this until the date is shifted
> in some way.
>
> Is there any way to parse an entire region/buffer for Org-mode dates and
> refresh their day of the week text?
>
I would probably do this with an Emacs macro,
searching for the date as a regex, moving to the space before "]" and shifting rigth and again shifting left.
This will end up with the right week day for each date.
rainer
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* RE: Converting dates to org-mode dates
2007-11-12 15:02 ` Bastien
@ 2007-11-12 14:45 ` Chris Randle
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chris Randle @ 2007-11-12 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Bastien wrote:
> Maybe you can try this (not heavily tested):
>
> (defun my-update-day-name-in-inactive-time-stamps ()
> "Update the abbreviate day name in inactive time-stamps."
Thank you. It works a treat. It also has a potentially useful
side-effect, in that valid inactive time stamps like:
[2007-11-12 ]
are left untouched, which may well be what some people would want,
whereas if my search replace operations leave:
[2007-11-12 xxx]
then they will be updated. And if I want the former style stamps
updated, your code is clear enough that (even!) I can see how to adjust
it.
Thanks again.
--
Chris Randle
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* Re: Converting dates to org-mode dates
2007-11-12 13:20 Converting dates to org-mode dates Chris Randle
2007-11-12 13:30 ` Rainer Stengele
@ 2007-11-12 15:02 ` Bastien
2007-11-12 14:45 ` Chris Randle
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2007-11-12 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
"Chris Randle" <chris@amlog.co.uk> writes:
> [2007-11-12 Tue] (should be Mon)
>
> As far as I can see, that will stay like this until the date is shifted
> in some way.
>
> Is there any way to parse an entire region/buffer for Org-mode dates and
> refresh their day of the week text?
Maybe you can try this (not heavily tested):
(defun my-update-day-name-in-inactive-time-stamps ()
"Update the abbreviate day name in inactive time-stamps."
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward
"\\[\\([0-9]\\{4\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}\\)\\( [a-z]+\\)\\]" nil t)
(let* ((date (match-string 1))
(day (format-time-string
"%a"
(apply 'encode-time
(save-match-data (org-parse-time-string date))))))
(replace-match (concat "[" date " " day "]") t t)))))
--
Bastien
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