Hi Michael, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerde...@web.de> writes:
> The org-mode manual under the node "The date/time prompt" tells: > > "[...] The function understands English month and weekday abbreviations. If > you want to use unabbreviated names and/or other languages, configure > the variables `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays'." > > It doesn't tell how the user can do that. Even worse, > `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays' are not defined as user > options and undocumented! > > After reading the above section in the org manual, users may replace > the English names with e.g. German ones in their config. Seems this > is not a good idea, as this user question in gnu.emacs.gnus shows: > > http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/browse_thread/thread/8dde85b5ff3ab454/a02ddb878bfa1eb9 The thread doesn't tell what is wrong with setting `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays'. Can you expand a bit more on this? > BTW1: maybe a better solution would be to define own variables for > this purpose in org, instead of letting users change variables in > parse-time.el. Org heavily depends on parse-time.el. Providing a defcustom in Org that is tied to parse-time.el at the same time is not trivial. Thanks, -- Bastien
