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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Date/time prompt  parses '3-2' as 'Month-Day', can I configure it to parse it as 'Day-Month' ?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:00:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ehh3u5cg.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130129193653.6460d3b5@hsdev.com

Hi Marcel,

Marcel van der Boom wrote:
> The date/time prompt, as described at [1], helps me a lot to quickly go
> over items and (re-)schedule or put a deadline to them. 
> It has bitten me a couple of times though where I typed
> '3-2' where my intention was to put it at the 'third of february' and
> ended up with something at the 'second of march'.
>
> Is there some way I could adapt the interpretation? The date
> format 'd-m-y' is wired into my hands apparently. 
>
> Thx,
> marcel
>
> [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/The-date_002ftime-prompt.html

Not tested, but I would try to play with:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (setq calendar-date-style 'iso) ;; or 'european
#+end_src

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29 18:36 Date/time prompt parses '3-2' as 'Month-Day', can I configure it to parse it as 'Day-Month' ? Marcel van der Boom
2013-01-29 20:00 ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2013-01-29 20:37   ` Marcel van der Boom
2013-01-29 21:08     ` Nick Dokos
2013-01-29 22:16       ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-29 22:45         ` Nick Dokos
2013-01-30 18:39           ` David Rogers

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