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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Date/time prompt parses '3-2' as 'Month-Day', can I configure it to parse it as 'Day-Month' ?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:08:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4539.1359493684@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> of "Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:37:25 +0100." <20130129213725.08b96621@hsdev.com>

Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue 29-Jan-2013 21:00
> "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Marcel van der Boom wrote:
> >> The date/time prompt, as described at [1], helps me a lot to quickly
> >> go over items and (re-)schedule or put a deadline to them. 
> >> It has bitten me a couple of times though where I typed
> >> '3-2' where my intention was to put it at the 'third of february' and
> >> ended up with something at the 'second of march'.
> >>
> >> Is there some way I could adapt the interpretation? The date
> >> format 'd-m-y' is wired into my hands apparently. 
> [...]
> > 
> > Not tested, but I would try to play with:
> > 
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> >   (setq calendar-date-style 'iso) ;; or 'european
> > #+end_src
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. It does not make a difference. A quick
> grep/glance in the org-mode code confirms that. 
> 

(untested) I believe you can enter dates in "european dot" notation:

	   2013.2.3

but iirc you are not allowed to leave out the year. Another
possibility is

	    feb 3

FWIW, I find ISO notation (with its left-to-right decrease in
significance, mirroring that of numbers) the most sensible arrangement,
and now use it almost exclusively.

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29 18:36 Date/time prompt parses '3-2' as 'Month-Day', can I configure it to parse it as 'Day-Month' ? Marcel van der Boom
2013-01-29 20:00 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-01-29 20:37   ` Marcel van der Boom
2013-01-29 21:08     ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2013-01-29 22:16       ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-29 22:45         ` Nick Dokos
2013-01-30 18:39           ` David Rogers

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