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In-Reply-To: <87k4l7o4x5.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of
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To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, r.thiel@uni-jena.de

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:11:34 +0200, Rainer Thiel <r.thiel@uni-jena.de> wrote:

>> >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#org-diary-class
>> 
>> This would be exactly what I need -- if it really worked.  It does not
>> for me, probably because I haven't really understood how it is
>> supposed to work.  I should have expected that an entry like this:
>> 
>> * TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
>>   <%%(org-diary-class 10 18 2010 2 12 2011 3)>
>> 
>> in one of my agenda files would make show up an agenda entry every
>> Wednesday between Oct 18th, 2010 and Feb 12, 2011 in my agenda.  But
>> this is not the case, nothing shows up.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> 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.  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)>
>
> You may need to do the same.
>
> I've cc-ed the org-mode list for others to be aware of this as well.

Thanks for this clarification Eric. I updated the FAQ accordingly. 

Best,
Matt