From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Thum Subject: Date parsing silent failure / german dates Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:38:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4F78849B.5070508@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SENo0-0002TB-5o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:39:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SENnx-0006wk-5w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:39:03 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:41952) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SENnw-0006wM-SD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:39:01 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, it seem org-mode has some support for dates of the form dd.mm.[yyyy]. This is a popular notation in germany and probably elsewhere, but the support is undocumented and apparently very limited. For example, 06.03. => 2012-06-03 but adding a time like 03.06. 17:00 => today's date This latter case seems equivalent to shub shub => today's date So for me, as I like the notation, perhaps it could be fixed to allow for dates + times? Alternatively, the silent failure seems dangerous and should be removed. I'm OK with accepting no input as today, but non-parseable input shouldn't be accepted. I'm looking into this, but I don't think I'm likely to come up with a fix. Cheers, Simon