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Re: diary behaving strangely


From: Edward M. Reingold
Subject: Re: diary behaving strangely
Date: 12 Nov 2002 19:54:03 -0600

>>>>> "CM" == Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

    CM> It seems that diary/calendar does not complain when it cannot parse a
    CM> date. It would probably be helpful if it printed a warning if (what it
    CM> thinks is the) month is bigger than 12, for example.

It is not possible to do that because the diary contents are free form and
any comment line is a non-date.  The only errors that can be trapped (and they
are) are errors in sexps.
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