Re: Format for timestamp export

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Daniel Clemente wrote:

>
> Hi. Since I edit my files from different computers, each with  
> different locales, I end up with dates like:
>
>
>   CLOCK: [2009-04-01 mié 14:15]--[2009-04-01 mié 14:22] =>  0:07
> …
>     SCHEDULED: <2009-03-26 dj 18:00>
> …
> CLOSED: [2007-11-25 So 19:05]
>
> … <2007-08-31 Fri 17:25>
>
>
> Emacs and I can live with these localised week day names, but to  
> external (HTML) users I would like to show dates in a custom format  
> so that they always look the same.
>
>
> Can I format timestamps on export?

You can customize them for display, which will also
transfer to exported files.
Check out the variables `org-display-custom-times' and
`org-time-stamp-custom-formats'.

When you turn this on, you lose some of the editing capabilities
for time stamps with S-cursor keys.  So if you really only need it
for export, you can use one of the export preprocessor hooks and
change all the time stamps with a function like (untested):

(add-hook 'org-export-preprocess-final-hook
  (lambda ()
    (let ((org-display-custom-times t)
	  (org-time-stamp-custom-formats
	   '("<%m/%d/%y %a>" . "<%m/%d/%y %a %H:%M>"))) ;; customize!
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (re-search-forward org-ts-regexp-both nil t)
	(replace-match (save-match-data
			 (org-translate-time (match-string 0)))
		       t t)))))

HTH

- Carsten






>
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
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