From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Undocumented convention for org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be "<...>"
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:21:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jvt4581.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
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>>> "IR" == Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> My time-stamps are of the form <2022-10-23 Sun>
>> I have an entry like this
>>
>> - State "DONE" from "WAIT" [2022-10-23 21:06] \\
>>
>>
>>
>> However it is displayed when I use org-toggle-time-stamp-overlays as
>> [23.10.%]
>>
>> Neither the year not the time is displayed, why!
>>
>> I have set
>> org-time-stamp-custom-formats
>> to
>> (" %d.%m.%Y " . " %d.%m.%Y")
>>
>> I am puzzled, any ideas?
> Confirmed.
thanks
> This is because Org expects the first and the last characters in
> org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be opening/closing brackets.
> (undocumented)
So this should have been the correct setting?
("<%d.%m.%Y " . " %d.%m.%Y>")
> Why?
> Because org-time-stamp-formats does so.
> Why does org-time-stamp-formats does so?
> No idea.
> This code dates back to initial Org commits.
> I think it would make sense to change it.
> However, if we change special treatment of the first/last characters in
> org-time-stamp-custom-formats, it will also make sense to change
> org-time-stamp-formats constant.
> For backwards compatibility, we will need to keep special treatment to
> strip brackets around the formats, if present.
> I propose to do the following:
> 1. org-time-stamp-formats and org-time-stamp-custom-formats will be
> treated as is, unless they contain "<" and ">" and the first and the
> last char.
> 2. If the formats do contain <...>, strip the "<" and ">".
> 3. Document (2) in the docstrings.
> Any objections?
To me that sounds logical.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-24 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-23 20:32 time-stamp in DONE tag is not really displayed Uwe Brauer
2022-10-24 9:07 ` [BUG] Undocumented convention for org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be "<...>" (was: time-stamp in DONE tag is not really displayed) Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-24 15:21 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2022-10-25 6:18 ` [BUG] Undocumented convention for org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be "<...>" Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-25 1:29 ` [BUG] Undocumented convention for org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be "<...>" (was: time-stamp in DONE tag is not really displayed) Tim Cross
2022-10-26 4:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-26 4:20 ` Samuel Wales
2022-10-26 5:06 ` Tim Cross
2022-11-07 7:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
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