Re: diary behaving strangely

[Colin Marquardt]

[warming up an oldish thread...]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> The diary re-reads the diary file every time the buffer is
> generated.  However, it won't understand "20 October 2002" unless
> european-calendar-style is set to t when emacs starts up, or you
> modify diary-date-forms.

It seems that diary/calendar does not complain when it cannot parse a
date. It would probably be helpful if it printed a warning if (what
it thinks is the) month is bigger than 12, for example.

Cheers,
  Colin