Re: diary: international date format

[Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de>]

reingold@emr.cs.uiuc.edu (Edward M. Reingold) writes:

>>>>>> "RS" == Regis Smith <reegis@attbi.com> writes:
>
>     RS> Unless I'm totally missing something, emacs doesn't recognize the
>     RS> international calendar format (YYYY-MM-DD) for entries in the diary
>     RS> file.  I know of the M-x american-calendar and M-x european-calendar,
>     RS> but I can't find a command for the international format.  Is there a
>     RS> standard hack to get this done?
>
> You just need to set your own value for diary-date-forms.  See the
> documentation for that variable.

I think it would be worthwhile to enable support for ISO 8601 in
calendar/diary by default. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
for a detailed description. Ideally, one could give e.g. 
"2002-09-04T16:55:00" as a date/time spec.

Of course, I don't volunteer to change the code, so I'll shut up now :)

Cheers,
  Colin