Variable: diary-american-date-forms

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

Value

((month "/" day "[^/0-9]") (month "/" day "/" year "[^0-9]")
 (monthname " *" day "[^,0-9]")
 (monthname " *" day ", *" year "[^0-9]") (dayname "\\W"))

Documentation

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

The defaults are: MONTH/DAY; MONTH/DAY/YEAR; MONTHNAME DAY; MONTHNAME DAY, 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-american-date-forms
  '((month "/" day "[^/0-9]")
    (month "/" day "/" year "[^0-9]")
    (monthname " *" day "[^,0-9]")
    (monthname " *" day ", *" year "[^0-9]")
    (dayname "\\W"))
  "List of pseudo-patterns describing the American style of dates.
The defaults are: MONTH/DAY; MONTH/DAY/YEAR; MONTHNAME DAY;
MONTHNAME DAY, 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)