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* org-mode gets confused with column widths when 'time-stamp-custom-formats' are applied.
@ 2017-11-14 12:02 Ruy Exel
  2017-11-15 17:15 ` Nicolas Goaziou
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ruy Exel @ 2017-11-14 12:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Consider the table below:

| Name  | Date of Birth    |
|-------+------------------|
| John  | <1978-11-14 Tue> |
| Peter | <1970-11-14 Sat> |
|-------+------------------|

Suppose we want to format time stamps differently, such as with the
following elisp commands:

(setq org-time-stamp-custom-formats (quote ("<%d %b %y>" . "<%m/%d/%y %a
%H:%M>")))
(org-toggle-time-stamp-overlays)

After realigning the table you get

| Name  | Date of Birth    |
|-------+------------------|
| John  | <14 Nov 1978> |
| Peter | <14 Nov 1970> |
|-------+------------------|

which is wrong because column widths are not uniform.  The reason, I
suppose, is that when computing column widths, org-mode ignores the fact
that the change of time stamps may have altered the length of the printed
string.

Best wishes,
Ruy Exel

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