Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: Hi Eric,
>> Oh, now I see what's wrong. All time stamps consist of the date and >> then the day's name abbreviation, which is missing with your example. >> Correct would be >> >> <2011-10-17 Mon>--<2011-10-30 Sun> > > Although the day is optional according to the regexp. I would > definitely like to have the regexp with the space optional as well as > there are cases where I want to type the date in directly (not in org > mode for whatever reason). In those cases, it is easy to type > 2011-01-01 or whatever but it's not necessarily trivial to determine > the day of the week... Yes, I agree, although you can use org-time-stamp everywhere (in emacs). And you can actually insert timestamps simply by writing <2011-10-13 > with the whitespace to make it a valid timestamp. That will be shown as day entry in the agenda, and you might have typed it in using some non-emacs text editor on you phone. Now, back in org-mode, simply S-<up> and S-<down> on any number, and et voila, the missing day name abbrev is added automatically. > Actually, interesting thought experiment: does org actually do any > consistency checks, comparing the date and the day of the week? No, I don't think so. Manipulating and creating timestamps using the provided commands ensures their correctness, but for actual calculation the day names are ignored. It's just for humans. Bye, Tassilo