Memnon Anon <gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com> writes: > ,----[ (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?
It might be even better to use calendar style ‘iso’ in that documentation, to be consistent with default Org usage. > 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? Yes, that inconsistency in the Diary behaviour has been noted. -- \ “My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves | `\ to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my | _o__) aspirations.“ —Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860-09-23 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
