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Subject: Re: Re: Date Prompt Bug (or Anomoly)
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On Jun 4, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mikael Fornius wrote:

>
> I do not know what version your info reference is but my latest
> git-versions info page documents the usage of 2/5 date format.

Indeed.  This was a but in the special regexp looking for
american-style dates - I had the parts for day and month the
wrong way round.

Should be fixed now.

Thanks to Daniel for the report, and to everyone else for following up.

- Carsten

>
> (info "(org) The date/time prompt")
>
> Then the info page is wrong and the docstring to `org-read-date'  
> states:
>
> "The prompt will suggest to enter an ISO date, but you can also enter
> anything which will at least partially be understood by
> `parse-time-string'."
>
> What `parse-time-string' understands I can not find well documented  
> and
> it may be a bug or something there but who knows where its behavior is
> documented?
>
> (I get the same wrong result in my date prompt when trying 5/21.
>
> Org-mode version 6.36trans (release_6.36.154.g6bad)
> GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of  
> 2010-06-01 on eee)
>
> -- 
> Mikael Fornius
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- Carsten