Variable: diary-european-date-forms

diary-european-date-forms is a customizable variable defined in calendar.el.gz.

Value

((day "/" month "[^/0-9]") (day "/" month "/" year "[^0-9]")
 (backup day " *" monthname
	 "\\W+\\<\\([^*0-9]\\|\\([0-9]+[:aApP]\\)\\)")
 (day " *" monthname " *" year "[^0-9:aApP]") (dayname "\\W"))

Documentation

List of pseudo-patterns describing the European style of dates.

The defaults are: DAY/MONTH; DAY/MONTH/YEAR; DAY MONTHNAME; DAY MONTHNAME YEAR; DAYNAME. Normally you should not customize this, but diary-date-forms (which see).

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/calendar/calendar.el.gz
(defcustom diary-european-date-forms
  '((day "/" month "[^/0-9]")
    (day "/" month "/" year "[^0-9]")
    (backup day " *" monthname "\\W+\\<\\([^*0-9]\\|\\([0-9]+[:aApP]\\)\\)")
    (day " *" monthname " *" year "[^0-9:aApP]")
    (dayname "\\W"))
  "List of pseudo-patterns describing the European style of dates.
The defaults are: DAY/MONTH; DAY/MONTH/YEAR; DAY MONTHNAME;
DAY MONTHNAME YEAR; DAYNAME.  Normally you should not customize this, but
`diary-date-forms' (which see)."
  :type '(repeat (choice (cons :tag "Backup"
                               :value (backup . nil)
                               (const backup)
                               (repeat (list :inline t :format "%v"
                                             (symbol :tag "Keyword")
                                             (choice symbol regexp))))
                         (repeat (list :inline t :format "%v"
                                       (symbol :tag "Keyword")
                                       (choice symbol regexp)))))
  :group 'diary)