Re: how to customize date export

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Thanks for the note.  As it stands now, I cannot
>> customize these two variables to do what I want, as they accept the
>> whole time-steamp as argument.  I will enter the dates manually
>> in the org file for now.
>
> I thought as much.  
>
> Looking through the code, some of the functions for outputting the time
> stamps make use of org-translate-time which does allow some
> customisation of how the dates and times are written out, along the
> lines of what you were looking at for DATE entries.  Check the
> documentation for that function.  But it could be I've misunderstood the
> code...

Based on Eric's hint, I followed org-translate-time's docstring (and
references therein) and I came up with this which seems to work (in the
sense that the dates look like <2014/02/03 Monday> when exported,
which agrees with the specified format):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+STARTUP: customtime

* foo
<2014-02-03 Mon>

# Local Variables:
# org-time-stamp-custom-formats: ("<%Y/%m/%d %A>" . "<%Y/%m/%d %A %H:%M>")
# End:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

However, the angle brackets seem to be required.

Nick