From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ascii-timestamps like 31.12.2021 to iso(org) format <2020-12-31> and back
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 13:58:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl0wj2pt.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfu8j4en.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:21:52 +0100")
On Friday, 31 Dec 2021 at 14:21, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> ⚠️ Caution: External sender
>
>
> Hi
>
> Does anybody know about a function that would convert between
> date format like 31.12.2021 to <2020-12-31> and back?
This is Emacs, of course, so you could use query-replace-regexp (M-%)
with, for instance
\([0-9][0-9]\)\.\([0-9][0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\{4\}\)
as the pattern to search for and
<\3-\2-\1>
as the replacement. The converse is left as an exercise for the
reader. ;-)
--
: Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.2-289-gce75d2 in Emacs 29.0.50
: Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-31 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-31 13:21 ascii-timestamps like 31.12.2021 to iso(org) format <2020-12-31> and back Uwe Brauer
2021-12-31 13:58 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2021-12-31 16:05 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-12-31 16:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-04 10:00 ` Max Nikulin
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