Re: Re: Date Prompt Bug (or Anomoly)

["Daniel E. Doherty" <ddoherty03@gmail.com>]

Carsten,

I pulled the latest git, and it looks like "3/21" and "5/21" work as 
expected.  But when I put in "7/21", a date in the near future, it is 
interpreting it a "2021-07-21" rather than the "2010-07-21" that one 
would expect.

Regards,

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On 06/04/2010 06:00 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> 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
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