On 13.10.2011, at 09:57, Tassilo Horn wrote: > 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. Just to confirm, this is correct. - Carsten
