Re: Re: Date Prompt Bug (or Anomoly)

[Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net>]

Carsten,

Thanks for the fix.  All, thanks for the follow-up.

Regards,

Dan

>>>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

    > 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