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Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, johanna.may@th-koeln.de

Hi Johanna,

"Prof. Dr. Johanna May" <johanna.may@th-koeln.de> writes:

> thanks for pointing me at the variable org-agenda-format-date. There
> was  a line in my dotemacs that included a formatting without the
> weekday (something like %y-%w-%d).

Ah, ok, great!

> I could not figure out how the name-of-the-weekday format would be
> called. But for now I'm fine with returning to the default which gives
> me an English date including the weekday.

You probably want "%a" or "%A" somewhere in there, if you want a
locale-specific name of the weekday.  See the docstring for the
format-time-string function.

-- 
Best,
Richard