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changeset 52120:d03db605b057
(Date Formats): Document changed behaviour of abbreviations.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 03 Aug 2003 14:12:17 +0000 |
| parents | 226327fe046f |
| children | e5fc8fcf3bb5 |
| files | man/calendar.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/calendar.texi Sun Aug 03 14:02:15 2003 +0000 +++ b/man/calendar.texi Sun Aug 03 14:12:17 2003 +0000 @@ -1116,8 +1116,11 @@ Dates can also have the form @samp{@var{monthname} @var{day}} or @samp{@var{monthname} @var{day}, @var{year}}, where the month's name can -be spelled in full or abbreviated to three characters (with or without a -period). Case is not significant. +be spelled in full or abbreviated (with or without a period). The +preferred abbreviations can be controlled using the variables +@code{calendar-abbrev-length}, @code{calendar-month-abbrev-array}, and +@code{calendar-day-abbrev-array}. The default is to use the first three +letters of a name as its abbreviation. Case is not significant. A date may be @dfn{generic}; that is, partially unspecified. Then the entry applies to all dates that match the specification. If the date