Re: [O] Bug: org-read-date: problem with year in dotted european date input [7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-436-g9b11e6 @ /home/grfz/src/org-mode/lisp/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> Org used to have the ambition to parse a date in the middle of a text,
> and this six what you are seeing in the documentation. However, over
> time more and more different requests came in, to parse ISO weeks,
> European dates and more.  Also we want to allow incomplete dates like
> leaving out a year etc.  I still think Org does a pretty god job
> there.  However, to be reasonably predictable we did have o restrict
> matching of special dates to the beginning of the string, and this is
> what you and Nicolas are now seeing.

It may be worth specifying that restriction in the documentation. As
Gregor pointed out

    But it will in fact accept any string containing some date
  and/or time information, and it is really smart about interpreting your
  input.

is misleading.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou