[patch] Problem with insert anniversary agenda function (was Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp')

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>>
>>> thanks, got it working now (with some fiddling).
>>> 
>>> looks like `calendar-date-style' is not honored /at all/, if you don't
>>> use YYYY-MM-DD format (as stated in the org-bbdb.el header, admittedly),
>>> it just blows up in your face :)
>>
>> While I think the org-bbdb code could be made more forgiving,
>> I strongly feel that calendar-date-style is an evil variable,
>> especially if it is applied to input.  One should never rely on it.
>>
>> my 5c.
>>
>> - Carsten
>
> Although I am likely to agree with you on this, any interactions with
> Emacs's diary requires working with it.  
>
> This reminds me of a problem with the insert anniversary function in the
> default agenda view ("i a").  This function ignores the
> calendar-date-style and inserts dates in the american style, which of
> course means that diary entries are quietly ignored if you have
> calendar-date-style set to anything other than 'american...
>
> Not a big deal...  I don't use anniversaries *that* often!

I've made a simple change (attached) to org-agenda.el which at least
considers the 'iso date style as well as european.  Might not be fancy
lisp code but I think it works?


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diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
index 991a94a..0d074a7 100644
--- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
+++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
@@ -7770,11 +7770,12 @@ the resulting entry will not be shown.  When TEXT is empty, switch to
       (insert "\n")
       (require 'diary-lib)
       (let ((calendar-date-display-form
-	     (if (if (boundp 'calendar-date-style)
-		     (eq calendar-date-style 'european)
-		   (with-no-warnings ;; european-calendar-style is obsolete as of version 23.1
-		     (org-bound-and-true-p european-calendar-style))) ; Emacs 22
-		 '(day " " month " " year)
+	     (if (boundp 'calendar-date-style)
+		 (if (eq calendar-date-style 'european)
+		     '(day " " month " " year)
+		   (if (eq calendar-date-style 'iso)
+		       '(year " " month " " day)
+		     '(month " " day " " year)))
 	       '(month " " day " " year))))
 
 	(insert (format "%%%%(diary-anniversary %s) %s"

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I know I should be formatting this appropriately etc but I'm still not
very comfortable with git...  too much to do, so little time.  sorry.

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