From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Marquardt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diary behaving strangely Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:43:16 +0100 Organization: I'd rather call it chaos ... Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r8e99qwy.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <8665vlb3r1.fsf@wintermute.att.cmg.nl> <871y699oo4.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <87znsw9g9n.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037095246 22636 80.91.224.249 (12 Nov 2002 10:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: diary Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18BXqf-0005sx-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:00:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BXqf-0003LZ-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:00:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.osn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!gate.alcatel.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.alcatel.de (194.113.59.80) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1037094197 13194664 194.113.59.80 (16 [131051]) X-Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are not those of Alcatel. User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kZT7fOjeA7nK4KcUOlAnLzuLBO8= Cache-Post-Path: news.alcatel.de!unknown@slse6w.stgl.sel.alcatel.de X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106958 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3510 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3510 [warming up an oldish thread...] Alan Shutko writes: > The diary re-reads the diary file every time the buffer is > generated. However, it won't understand "20 October 2002" unless > european-calendar-style is set to t when emacs starts up, or you > modify diary-date-forms. It seems that diary/calendar does not complain when it cannot parse a date. It would probably be helpful if it printed a warning if (what it thinks is the) month is bigger than 12, for example. Cheers, Colin