Re: Re: Date calculations

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Memnon Anon wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> can you point out exactly where in the documentation this is located?
>
> ,----[ (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") ]
> |      * Birthdays and similar stuff
> |      #+CATEGORY: Holiday
> |      %%(org-calendar-holiday)   ; special function for holiday names
> |      #+CATEGORY: Ann
> |      %%(diary-anniversary 14  5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old
> |      %%(diary-anniversary  2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi would be %d  
> years old
> `----
>
> These examples suggest D-M-Y, which only seems to work with the  
> calendar
> set to european style. Maybe, it would be better to change the example
> to M-D-Y (I think it is more common?) and add a footnote that provides
> the info that the date format is depending on calendar-date-style?
>
> The next paragraph (Anniversaries from BBDB) on the other hand  
> states a
> fixed order.
>> Basically, you need to press `C-o anniversary <RET>' with the  
>> cursor in
>> a BBDB record and then add the date in the format `YYYY-MM-DD',
>> [...]
>>    1973-06-22
>>    1955-08-02 wedding
>>    2008-04-14 %s released version 6.01 of org-mode, %d years ago
>
> So, if I understand it correctly, org-bbdb settled on iso format,
> diary-anniversary uses either american or european style depending on
> calendar-date-style.
>
> Thats somehow inconsistent, isn't it?


Hi Memnon,


Org-mode consistently uses ISO format, I believe.  I chose it  
precisely in order
to make sure there could be no misunderstanding in what these dates  
mean.

I cannot change the behavior of the calendar functions....

- Carsten