Subject: org-agenda does not handle diary appointments with days

From: Nic Ferrier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 19:26:45 +0100

Sample ~/diary file:

29/7/2000 wedding anniversary
May 13, 2013
  12:00 Meeting, Nic and Pat
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
  11:00 Meeting to be decided.

Now do org-agenda-list, here is what we get:

Month-agenda (W18-W23):
Saturday    4 May 2013
Sunday      5 May 2013
Monday      6 May 2013 W19
Tuesday     7 May 2013
  Diary:      11:00...... Meeting to be decided.
  Diary:      May 14, 2013
Wednesday   8 May 2013
Thursday    9 May 2013
Friday     10 May 2013
Saturday   11 May 2013
Sunday     12 May 2013
Monday     13 May 2013 W20
  Diary:      12:00...... Meeting | Nic and Pat, (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London. 
Tuesday    14 May 2013
  Diary:      11:00...... Meeting to be decided.
  Diary:      May 14, 2013
Wednesday  15 May 2013
Thursday   16 May 2013
Friday     17 May 2013
Saturday   18 May 2013
Sunday     19 May 2013
Monday     20 May 2013 W21
Tuesday    21 May 2013
  Diary:      11:00...... Meeting to be decided.
  Diary:      May 14, 2013

The meeting with the specified day name from the diary file is being
inserted at every Tuesday.

Unfortunately, the day-name is standard in the output from
the function calendar-date-string which is used to automatically add
entries to the diary file.

The problem appears unrelated to org-agenda but is something to do with
the way diary mode understands it's entries. You can get the same broken
behaviour viewing the calendar and marking diary entries.

Nic Ferrier