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[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations
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Ben Finney |
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[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:46:40 +1100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Memnon Anon <address@hidden> writes:
> ,----[ (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") ]
> | * Birthdays and similar stuff
> | #+CATEGORY: Holiday
> | %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
> | #+CATEGORY: Ann
> | %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old
> | %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi would be %d years old
> `----
>
> These examples suggest D-M-Y, which only seems to work with the
> calendar set to european style. Maybe, it would be better to change
> the example to M-D-Y (I think it is more common?) and add a footnote
> that provides the info that the date format is depending on
> calendar-date-style?
It might be even better to use calendar style ‘iso’ in that
documentation, to be consistent with default Org usage.
> So, if I understand it correctly, org-bbdb settled on iso format,
> diary-anniversary uses either american or european style depending on
> calendar-date-style.
>
> Thats somehow inconsistent, isn't it?
Yes, that inconsistency in the Diary behaviour has been noted.
--
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Ben Finney
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, (continued)
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Benjamin Andresen, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Memnon Anon, 2009/12/30
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Carsten Dominik, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Benjamin Andresen, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Memnon Anon, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Benjamin Andresen, 2009/12/30
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Carsten Dominik, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Benjamin Andresen, 2009/12/30
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Carsten Dominik, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations, Memnon Anon, 2009/12/30
- [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations,
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