Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date Prompt Bug (or Anomoly)

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 5, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Daniel E. Doherty wrote:

> Carsten,
>
> I pulled the latest git, and it looks like "3/21" and "5/21" work as  
> expected.  But when I put in "7/21", a date in the near future, it  
> is interpreting it a "2021-07-21" rather than the "2010-07-21" that  
> one would expect.

I cannot reproduce this.

- Carsten

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>
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> On 06/04/2010 06:00 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > On Jun 4, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mikael Fornius wrote:
> >
> > > I do not know what version your info reference is but my latest
> > > git-versions info page documents the usage of 2/5 date format.
> >
> > Indeed. This was a but in the special regexp looking for
> > american-style dates - I had the parts for day and month the
> > wrong way round.
> >
> > Should be fixed now.
> >
> > Thanks to Daniel for the report, and to everyone else for following  
> > up.
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> > > (info "(org) The date/time prompt")
> > >
> > > Then the info page is wrong and the docstring to `org-read-date'  
> > > states:
> > >
> > > "The prompt will suggest to enter an ISO date, but you can also  
> > > enter
> > > anything which will at least partially be understood by
> > > `parse-time-string'."
> > >
> > > What `parse-time-string' understands I can not find well  
> > > documented and
> > > it may be a bug or something there but who knows where its  
> > > behavior is
> > > documented?
> > >
> > > (I get the same wrong result in my date prompt when trying 5/21.
> > >
> > > Org-mode version 6.36trans (release_6.36.154.g6bad)
> > > GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
> > > 2010-06-01 on eee)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mikael Fornius
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> > - Carsten
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- Carsten