[Orgmode] Re: Date Prompt Bug (or Anomoly)

[Noorul Islam K M]

Noorul Islam K M <address@hidden> writes:

> Daniel E. Doherty <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> All,
>>
>> In playing around with the date prompt (C-.), I ran across the following
>> puzzling behavior from rather simple inputs.
>>
>> I entered the following on June 1, 2010.  Here is a date entered as
>> "3/15": <2011-03-15 Tue>.  It interpreted it as the upcoming March 15 as
>> expected.
>>
>> But here is a date entered as "5/21": <2021-06-05 Sat>.  Note how it
>> interpreted the "21" as the year 2021, not at all what I expected from
>> the documentation or the analogous "3/15" example.
>
> I think you should be using 3-15 & 5-21. I think the program is not
> expecting '/' instead it expects '-'.

It is explained here.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/The-date_002ftime-prompt.html#The-date_002ftime-prompt

Thanks and Regards
Noorul