From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: git-like parsing of date strings Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:31:02 +0000 Organization: https://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87fs9p2eax.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> References: <831qla9tmm.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1ni89op.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8ilsqjc.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11776"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ziw2SZ+K2AAMsnG+W+qfLn6+NME= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 15:32:27 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ph9R3-0002jj-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:32:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ph9Py-0000Eo-5h; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ph9Pu-0000Dx-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ph9Ps-0006Dw-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:31:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ph9Pp-0000jl-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:31:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143139 Archived-At: John Yates wrote: >> Relative dates can be parsed by org-read-date, but the syn- >> tax is not very Git-like. > Do you know where I would find that parsing code? Well, it is probably somewhere in org-read-date-analyze, but I would just use org-read-date: | ELISP> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (org-read-date nil t "-3w")) | "2023-03-07" | ELISP> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (org-read-date nil t "+2d")) | "2023-03-30" | ELISP> Tim