From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: French abbreviations for the week days (`lun.', `mar.', `mer.', ...)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:46:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80sjztnxyp.fsf_-_@mundaneum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17AE3133-267B-4750-9CA6-CC317B179295@gmail.com
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Matt Lundin wrote:
>> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf-hclig2XLE9Zaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:11:34 +0200, Rainer Thiel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
>>>> <%%(org-diary-class 10 18 2010 2 12 2011 3)>
>>>
>>> What is wrong (if you can call it that) is that the actual argument list
>>> to the org-diary-class function depends on the settings of a couple of
>>> variables: calendar-date-style and/or european-calendar-style.
>
> I have been wondering for many years: What was Edward M. Reingold thinking
> when he made this horrible decision. I mean, local dependencies when parsing
> plain text dates - I guess there is no way around it. But in a function
> call? Sequence of arguments? What?????
>
>>> As I have the former set to 'iso, in my case
>>> I need to specify dates in the Y M D order:
>>>
>>> * TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
>>> <%%(org-diary-class 2010 10 18 2011 2 12 3)>
In the same arena, I've noticed -- since I am on a Windows computer with
French locales, that I now have Frenchized abbreviations for the dates, in the
timestamps and in the agenda.
For example:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
CLOCK: [2010-10-26 mar. 09:14]--[2010-10-26 mar. 10:15] => 1:01
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
where `mar.' represents `Tue' (mardi, Tuesday).
Though, I must admit that the use of French abbreviations for the *week days*
is not always done: at some point in time, Org reverts to using English week
days abbreviations. But I still don't understand when, what's the cut-off
reason for the change in behavior.
Can you help, please?
My params are:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2009-10-14 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Org
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
and, for the sake of completeness, here is the value of two variables which
could be of interest:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(describe-variable 'calendar-date-style)
#+end_src
#+results:
#+begin_example
calendar-date-style is a variable defined in `calendar.el'.
Its value is iso
Documentation:
Your preferred style for writing dates.
The options are:
`american' - month/day/year
`european' - day/month/year
`iso' - year/month/day
This affects how dates written in your diary are interpreted.
It also affects date display, as well as those calendar and diary
functions that take a date as an argument, e.g. `diary-date', by
changing the order in which the arguments are interpreted.
Setting this variable directly does not take effect (if the
calendar package is already loaded). Rather, use either
M-x customize or the function `calendar-set-date-style'.
You can customize this variable.
This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
version 23.1 of Emacs.
#+end_example
and:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(describe-variable 'european-calendar-style)
#+end_src
#+results:
#+begin_example
european-calendar-style is a variable defined in `calendar.el'.
Its value is nil
This variable is obsolete since 23.1;
use `calendar-date-style' instead.
Documentation:
Non-nil means use the European style of dates in the diary and display.
In this case, a date like 1/2/1990 would be interpreted as
February 1, 1990. See `diary-european-date-forms' for the
default European diary date styles.
Setting this variable directly does not take effect (if the
calendar package is already loaded). Rather, use either
M-x customize or the function `calendar-set-date-style'.
You can customize this variable.
#+end_example
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sébastien Vauban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 11:48 Repeating timestamps with a finish date Christopher Witte
2010-10-19 11:49 ` Christopher Witte
2010-10-21 1:31 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-21 6:51 ` timestamp with repeater interval Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <AANLkTimc5msQ188GdAG=394cH2Krvkrk3pZ7SRZOLfYp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-24 17:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-25 17:30 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-26 5:22 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-26 8:46 ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2010-12-21 9:24 ` French abbreviations for the week days (`lun.', `mar.', `mer.', ...) Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-26 8:13 ` timestamp with repeater interval Eric S Fraga
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-18 16:17 Rainer Thiel
2010-10-18 16:52 ` Greg Troxel
2010-10-18 17:49 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <AANLkTikXibUsDeJ3oECL1enGF7yWscjFxwZYJNZj=dZJ@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-19 8:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-19 22:16 ` Rainer Thiel
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