Re: [O] Show weekday in daily agenda view

[Prof. Dr. Johanna May]

Hi Richard,
thanks for pointing me at the variable org-agenda-format-date. There
was  a line in my dotemacs that included a formatting without the
weekday (something like %y-%w-%d). I could not figure out how the
name-of-the-weekday format would be called. But for now I'm fine with
returning to the default which gives me an English date including the
weekday.

Cheers, J

Richard Lawrence writes:

> Hi Johanna,
>
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> maybe I did not search the right way in google alias startpage. But I
>> could not figure out how to write next to the date e.g. 2000-04-01 the
>> weekday, i.e. the specific day of the week. It would come very handy to
>> have the date displayed as 2019-05-14 Tu and 2019-05-15 We and so on. Or
>> even have it spelled out as 2019-05-14 Tuesday.
>>
>> Probably there is a way of setting this. How does it work?
>
> Hmm.  My daily agenda (the default one) starts like this:
>
> Day-agenda (W20):
> Tuesday    14 May 2019
>
> and tasks, etc. are listed below that.  I don't think I've ever
> customized this.  Are you seeing something different?  Or maybe you mean
> something else by "agenda"?
>
> If you're talking about Org's built-in agenda, you might want to take a
> look at the `org-agenda-format-date' variable.  Mine is set to the
> org-agenda-format-date-aligned function, which I assume is what outputs
> the example above.
>
> If you're just talking about timestamps in Org files, you might want to
> look at the `org-time-stamp-custom-formats' and
> `org-display-custom-times' variables.
>
> Hope that helps!