Ben McKenzie <ben.k.mcken...@gmail.com> writes: > I tried to send this to the list earlier, but it doesn't seem to have > shown up. > > I'm trying to change the default timestamp format that BBDB uses for > its database to make it easier to sync it with an external > source. I've set bbdb-time-display-format to "%Y-%m-%dT%T%z" (what is > considered an ISO standard) but in the .bbdb file, it's still using > Y-M-D for all the timestamps. I'm not sure why it's not changing the > format.
Looking at bbdb.el (line 1291 here), I see that bbdb-time-display-format
is used only by the following function, bbdb-time-convert. This has the
following docstring:
"Convert a date from the BBDB internal format to the format
determined by FORMAT (or `bbdb-time-display-format' if FORMAT not
present). Returns a string containing the date in the new format."
It seems that the times get stored in a standard internal format in
.bbdb, but bbdb-time-display-format controls how they get displayed?
Rupert
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