Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> [[S/MIME Signed Part:Undecided]] >>>> "TC" == Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> writes: > > >> For problem 1, I suspect you will need to either change the date format >> or tell org what the date format is. It won't work trying to sort >> numerically as those values are not really numerical values. The date >> format you currently have I think is ambiguous - in Europe it would >> represent dd-mm-yyyy, but in the US it would represent mm-dd-yyyy. Best >> solution would be to convert the values into an ISO format i.e. >> yyyy-mm-dd. > > I just checked > I have the setting > ,---- > | org-time-stamp-custom-formats is a variable defined in ‘org.el’. > | Its value is (" %d.%m.%Y " . " %d.%m.%Y %a %H:%M ") > `---- > > But this as I understand only effect via > ‘org-display-custom-times’ the representation. > > It does not help me to recognise 28.04.2020 as a European date. > > [[End of S/MIME Signed Part]] I suspect org is actually passing off the sorting/comparison to calc (based on nothing but a guess of course). I would look into how calc determines the format for date/time calculations and see if that can help.