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, > > johanna....@th-koeln.de 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!