Date prompt and parse-time variables

Date prompt and parse-time variables

[Gautier Ponsinet]

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Hello everyone,

The org manual recommends to configure the variables parse-time-months
and parse-time-weekdays in order to use another language than English in
the time/date prompt. However, this can create conflict with other
functionality. For instance, it conflicts with the elfeed news reader
package.

Maybe, the org manual could also recommand to limit the effect of the
configuration of the parse-time variables by advising certain org
functions for the date prompt? (Looking at the code it seems that is
enough to advise the function org-read-date. Currently, I have the code
attached to this mail in my init file which seems to do the trick.)

Or, there could exist org specific variables org-parse-time-months and
org-parse-time-weekdays.

What do you all think?

All the best,
Gautier.

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(require 'parse-time)

(defun parse-time-fr (f &rest args)
  "Call the function F with arguments ARGS with `parse-time-months' and
`parse-time-weekdays' set to unaccented French."
  (let ((parse-time-months '(("jan" . 1)
			     ("fev" . 2)
			     ("mar" . 3)
			     ("avr" . 4)
			     ("mai" . 5)
			     ("jun" . 6)
			     ("jul" . 7)
			     ("aou" . 8)
			     ("sep" . 9)
			     ("oct" . 10)
			     ("nov" . 11)
			     ("dec" . 12)
			     ("janvier" . 1)
			     ("fevrier" . 2)
			     ("mars" . 3)
			     ("avril" . 4)
			     ("mai" . 5)
			     ("juin" . 6)
			     ("juillet" . 7)
			     ("aout" . 8)
			     ("septembre" . 9)
			     ("octobre" . 10)
			     ("novembre" . 11)
			     ("decembre" . 12)))
	(parse-time-weekdays '(("dim" . 0)
			       ("lun" . 1)
			       ("mar" . 2)
			       ("mer" . 3)
			       ("jeu" . 4)
			       ("ven" . 5)
			       ("sam" . 6)
			       ("dimanche" . 0)
			       ("lundi" . 1)
			       ("mardi" . 2)
			       ("mercredi" . 3)
			       ("jeudi" . 4)
			       ("vendredi" . 5)
			       ("samedi" . 6))))
    (apply f args)))

(advice-add 'org-read-date :around #'parse-time-fr)

Re: Date prompt and parse-time variables

[Ihor Radchenko]

Gautier Ponsinet <gautier@gautierponsinet.xyz> writes:

> The org manual recommends to configure the variables parse-time-months
> and parse-time-weekdays in order to use another language than English in
> the time/date prompt. However, this can create conflict with other
> functionality. For instance, it conflicts with the elfeed news reader
> package.

You do not have to replace the month names in that variable. You may
instead leave the English mappings, adding your non-English names as
extra.

-- 
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Re: Date prompt and parse-time variables

[Gautier Ponsinet]

Hello Ihor,

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> [2024-11-03 18:13 +0000]:
> You do not have to replace the month names in that variable. You may
> instead leave the English mappings, adding your non-English names as
> extra.

Oh! You are absolutely right, and I had completely missed the point
here. Thank you very much!

All the best,
Gautier.