Francesco Potortì writes: > Yes. Can you please send it to me together with my report? (I don't > remember the problem any more...) Patch included below, and here's the original report: Diary entries are not parsed by M-x diary if: - calendar-date-style is set to european (rather than american) AND - the date is written as "3 Feb" (rather than 3/2) AND - the time is written as "18.00" (rather than 18:00) At least, this is what I have found by trial and error. I looked at the code in appt.el and diary-lib.el but was not able to find the culprit... To reproduce: $ emacs -Q -nw --load=appt-bug.el You will see that only two european entries are shown (t1 and t2). Then exit Emacs, comment out the second line in appt-bug-el and rerun Emacs as above: you will see four american entries (t1, t2, t3, t4). ================ appt-bug.el (setq diary-file "~/appt-bug-diary" calendar-date-style 'european ) (load-library "diary-lib") (diary-list-entries (list 2 3 (decoded-time-year (decode-time))) 1) ================ appt-bug-diary -*-diary-*- 3 Feb 18:00 t1 works (european) 3/2 18.00 t2 works (european) 3 Feb 18.00 t3 does not work (european) 3 Feb 18.00 t4 does not work (european) Feb 3 18:00 t1 works (american) 2/3 18.00 t2 works (american) Feb 3 18.00 t3 works (american) Feb 3 18.00 t4 works (american)