Hi,
Many thanks for your reply.
How could I change the format-time string variable in my .emacs file?
Thanks again

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it
> wrote:

> --- Dom 30/8/09, bar tomas <bartomas@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Hi, Bar,
> >
> > I have a french version of windows so when I set a
> > timestamp on an item with C-c >, I get the timestamp in
> > french.
> >
> I've the italian version of windows XP, I get the
> timestamp in italian ;-)
>
> > I'd like to get it in english.
>
> As a workaround, for org files, you can change
> the *format* of the date having the
> *appearance* of the English date.
>
> Please have a look at the variable
> org-time-stamp-custom-formats
>
> C-h v org-time-stamp-custom-formats
>
> In a file I have:
>
> #Local Variables:
> #org-time-stamp-custom-formats : ("<%d/%m/%Y>" . "<%d/%m/%Y %a %H:%M>")
> #End:
>
> [2009-09-02 mer] becomes  [02/09/2009]
>
> Nice, but  you can only change the date day by day and the format
> will *not* be exported.
>
> Or [beware, untested!] you could change
> the format-time string variable in your .emacs.
>
> cheers,
> Giovanni
>
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