From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: display-time-string-forms Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:28:15 +0200 Message-ID: <03E27185-8F0B-4C91-8864-FB5233992B43@Web.DE> References: <87ir5fublw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192004953 16047 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2007 08:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sean Sieger Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 10 10:29:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfWwE-0000w1-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:29:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfWw8-0000Bb-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfWvW-0008UI-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:28:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfWvU-0008TX-Lc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfWvU-0008TU-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfWvU-0002Ua-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD53A5966A7; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:28:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [195.4.207.148] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1IfWvR-0007eJ-00; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:28:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ir5fublw.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/I9EEgooBW+CcE/6sKLVSZlmXxr5LyWoGGWF9G TmDn5buAgakhdKhpC4+GZZZL3V9WqL5xc2vnvmCVWBGtYbPsdq +HDVwUkd83pz1mu3NPVA== X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48286 Archived-At: Am 10.10.2007 um 01:11 schrieb Sean Sieger: > With M-x apropos display-time, I found the variable and its > documentation, but I don't know elisp. I was hoping there was some > information in the manual, but no. > > Is there a little something I can put in my ~/.emacs to get the form: > > yyyymmdd hh:mm It isn't ELisp, it's UNIX: 'man strftime' can explain. Then you can experiment on the command line with something like: date '+%Y%M%d %R%p' When you've found what you want, you can customise display-time- format to become "%Y%M%d %R%p" or your finding. -- Greetings Pete Clovis' Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly: The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated than by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.