Hi Michael, I removed the part of `org-read-date' docstring about `parse-time-weekdays' and `parse-time-months'. You're right that this can lead too errors.
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerde...@web.de> writes: > The thread is not completely visible in google groups, dunno why. > Please read at gnu.emacs.gnus with a newsreader. Done. > The problem was that the user replaced the English names with German > names - instead of adding them to the lists. This broke Gnus. Chances are that this will break Org too. > At least, the documentation in the org manual _must_ be improved, so > that the user is enabled to do the right thing without breaking anything > else. Done. >> Org heavily depends on parse-time.el. Providing a defcustom in Org >> that is tied to parse-time.el at the same time is not trivial. > > Why not? You could just write a function `org-parse-time-string' that > binds `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays' accordingly and > calls `parse-time-string'. Then you would just need to call this new > function from org code. Actually, there is already `org-parse-time-string', which does not rely on `parse-time-string' at all. Org relies on `parse-time-string' through `org-read-date', a core command of Org. Thanks, -- Bastien