From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Prof. Dr. Johanna May" Subject: Re: Show weekday in daily agenda view Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 08:42:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87h89wgqwc.fsf@th-koeln.de> References: <871s10df9r.fsf@th-koeln.de> <87k1eshids.fsf@aquinas.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Reply-To: johanna.may@th-koeln.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQoWc-0000XG-G0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 03:40:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQoWb-00022c-6E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 03:40:30 -0400 Received: from lvs-smtpgate1.nz.fh-koeln.de ([139.6.1.47]:21815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQoWa-0001yx-T0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2019 03:40:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k1eshids.fsf@aquinas.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> 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" To: Richard Lawrence Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, johanna.may@th-koeln.de Hi Richard, thanks for pointing me at the variable org-agenda-format-date. There was a line in my dotemacs that included a formatting without the weekday (something like %y-%w-%d). I could not figure out how the name-of-the-weekday format would be called. But for now I'm fine with returning to the default which gives me an English date including the weekday. Cheers, J Richard Lawrence writes: > Hi Johanna, > > johanna.may@th-koeln.de writes: > >> maybe I did not search the right way in google alias startpage. But I >> could not figure out how to write next to the date e.g. 2000-04-01 the >> weekday, i.e. the specific day of the week. It would come very handy to >> have the date displayed as 2019-05-14 Tu and 2019-05-15 We and so on. Or >> even have it spelled out as 2019-05-14 Tuesday. >> >> Probably there is a way of setting this. How does it work? > > Hmm. My daily agenda (the default one) starts like this: > > Day-agenda (W20): > Tuesday 14 May 2019 > > and tasks, etc. are listed below that. I don't think I've ever > customized this. Are you seeing something different? Or maybe you mean > something else by "agenda"? > > If you're talking about Org's built-in agenda, you might want to take a > look at the `org-agenda-format-date' variable. Mine is set to the > org-agenda-format-date-aligned function, which I assume is what outputs > the example above. > > If you're just talking about timestamps in Org files, you might want to > look at the `org-time-stamp-custom-formats' and > `org-display-custom-times' variables. > > Hope that helps!