Re: org-capture-templates: %date is too long

[Alberto AP]

Hi

What I use is the result of format-time-string (as explained in the Org
Capture Templates help; check also the help for the format-time-string
function).

The string I use is:
%<%Y%m%d-T%H%M%S>
It gives me, for example, 20210304-T095526.

If you don't want the hour just remove "-T%H%M%S"

Best,
Alberto

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hi
>
> I try to add a new entry to my org-capture-templates
> for mails what I read via gnus. I'd like to have a timestamp that
> reflects when the message was received, not when the entry was created
> (for that I would to have to use %t)
>
> Now I have set 
>
>          "| | %:fromname|%:fromaddress|%^{Sheet|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9} | %:date 
> |[ ] | | %a " :prepend t)
>
> Using the description of the org-capture-template
>
> ------------------------+------------------------------------------------------
> gnus                    |  %:from %:fromname %:fromaddress
>                         |  %:to   %:toname   %:toaddress
>                         |  %:fromto (either "to NAME" or "from NAME")
>                         |  %:date %:date-timestamp (as active timestamp)
>                         |  %:date-timestamp-inactive (as inactive timestamp)
> gnus                    |  %:group, for messages also all email fields
>
> The problem is this results in 
>
> | Number | name     | email             | sheet | date                        
>    | status |
> |        | John Doe | footbar@gmail.com |     2 | Tue, 2 Mar 2021 19:35:03 
> +0100 | [ ]    |
>
> I don't need the hour, and for sure I don't need +0100
>
> Any idea how to shorten that?
>
> regards
>
> Uwe Brauer