Aahhh.. I knew I'm missing something obvious. I just wasn't brave enough to simply try those key strokes from within the minibuffer... silly me. It also works here, of course.
Thank you Eike Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Eike Kettner <n...@eknet.org> writes: > >> Now I have several org files and I sometimes want to attach date or >> datetime properties to a headline. So I type C-c C-x p and answer the >> minibuffer. For a date/time value I'd like to use the nice input method >> (I think provided by `org-read-date') but I cannot figure out how to >> enable it when adding properties this way. Is this possible or should I >> add the PROPERTIES drawer first and then use C-c ! to add date value? > > It works for me over here: > > ,---- > | C-c C-x p mydate RET C-c ! > `---- > > and calendar window opens ... > > PS > > Org-mode version beta_8.3 (beta_8.3-21-g815c21 @ > /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/org/lisp/)