From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" 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 Message-ID: <86ehh3u5cg.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <20130129193653.6460d3b5@hsdev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org 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