Gregor Zattler <telegr...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi Nicolas, org-mode users and developers, > * Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> [13. Oct. 2012]: > > Gregor Zattler <telegr...@gmx.net> writes: > > > >> Back to square one: Does anybody know How to customise > >> Emacs/org-mode so that dotted European dates are parsed correctly > >> at the date/time prompt? > > > > Again, dotted European dates are parsed correctly without customization. > > Would you provide a time string that isn't? > > "Naked" dotted european dates without surrounding text are > parsed correctly by org-read-date. > > But with date/time prompt I mean the prompt which asks me for a > date/time when invoking org-time-stamp. Here I'm allowed to > insert Dates like "the event takes place at 27.10. at 14:00 in > the pub". Org-mode is supposed to parse these, see > [[info:org#The%20date/time%20prompt][info:org#The date/time prompt]]. > > If I now yank "Kommt am 27.10.2012 um 14:00 zum" in this > date/time prompt, the result is "<2010-10-27 Mi 14:00>" instead > of "<2012-10-27 Sa 14:00>". ^ ^^ > ^ ^^ >
org-read-date calls org-read-date-analyze which does not recognize this as any kind of time string format it knows about (all the regexps it tries fail to match), so it calls parse-time-string. Lo and behold, (parse-time-string "Kommt am 27.10.2012 um 14:00 zum") returns (0 0 14 27 nil 2010 nil nil nil) > > I had a look at org-time-stamp which is invoked by "C-c ." I do > not understand how this function parses dates/times from text. > Therefore I looked for functions with appropriate names which are > called by org-time-stamp. The only one I could find is > org-read-date. It obviously parses dates from a string and > identifies parts (day, month, year). I thought org-read-date > does the heavy lifting with respect to date parsing. But now I > think you are right and org-read-dates parses "naked dates". But > where does the parsing of texts which contain dates take place? > org-read-date does fine with "Kommt am 2012-10-27 um 14:00 zum", because parse-time-string can figure out the iso date, even though it cannot figure out the dotted european one: (parse-time-string "Kommt am 2012-10-27 um 14:00 zum") returns (0 0 14 27 10 2012 nil nil nil) Nick