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[BUG] Undocumented convention for org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be "<
From: |
Ihor Radchenko |
Subject: |
[BUG] Undocumented convention for org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be "<...>" (was: time-stamp in DONE tag is not really displayed) |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:07:58 +0000 |
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> My time-stamps are of the form <2022-10-23 Sun>
> I have an entry like this
>
> - State "DONE" from "WAIT" [2022-10-23 21:06] \\
>
>
>
> However it is displayed when I use org-toggle-time-stamp-overlays as
> [23.10.%]
>
> Neither the year not the time is displayed, why!
>
> I have set
> org-time-stamp-custom-formats
> to
> (" %d.%m.%Y " . " %d.%m.%Y")
>
> I am puzzled, any ideas?
Confirmed.
This is because Org expects the first and the last characters in
org-time-stamp-custom-formats to be opening/closing brackets.
(undocumented)
Why?
Because org-time-stamp-formats does so.
Why does org-time-stamp-formats does so?
No idea.
This code dates back to initial Org commits.
I think it would make sense to change it.
However, if we change special treatment of the first/last characters in
org-time-stamp-custom-formats, it will also make sense to change
org-time-stamp-formats constant.
For backwards compatibility, we will need to keep special treatment to
strip brackets around the formats, if present.
I propose to do the following:
1. org-time-stamp-formats and org-time-stamp-custom-formats will be
treated as is, unless they contain "<" and ">" and the first and the
last char.
2. If the formats do contain <...>, strip the "<" and ">".
3. Document (2) in the docstrings.
Any objections?
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