bug#13536: 24.2; Patterns in `diary-european-date-forms' NOT mutually exclusive -- incl. suggested Fix

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Merziger <andreas.merziger@online.de> writes:

> To reproduce the bug start with
>
> emacs -Q
>
> Contents of ~/diary are the following five lines:
> 23 Jan 10:00 Test-Entry 1
> 23 Jan 10pm Test-Entry 2
> 23 Jan 10am Test-Entry 3
> 23 Jan 10Pm Test-Entry 4
> 23 Jan 10Am Test-Entry 5
>
> 1.) Start the calendar:
>
> M-x calendar
>
> 2.) Set calendar-date-style to 'european
>
> M-x calendar-set-date-style
>
> Choose 'european.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
responses yet.)

I don't use Calendar that much, but I don't quite understand this use
case.  If you have "10am" in your diary file, and then you set the date
style to `european', then surely that diary file will be invalid?
"10am" isn't a valid `european' way to specify a time, I think?

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