Re: [Orgmode] Arthur Dent born in May?

[Ian Barton]

> > this might be an important glitch in org-mode's documentation:
> >
> > %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old
> >
> > probably should read
> >
> > %%(diary-anniversary 05 14 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old
> >
> > if Douglas Adams had May in mind for Mr Dent.
> >
> > So according to the Emacs documentation the format is "month day year"
> > which feels distinctly alien to me (I am used to "day month year"). Is
> > there another way to have the same functionality with a different date
> > format?
>
> The format of dates in Emacs' Diary is controlled by diary-date-forms
> which you can customise if you wish.  There are pre-defined forms for
> european, american and iso-date.  Type 
>
> C-h v diary-date-forms 
>
> for full help.

You can just put (european-calendar) in your .emacs to get dates in the 
"proper" format (customize will do the same thing).

Ian.