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History of 2025-09-15 Entering dates in Emacs Calc

2025-09-15
		16:41 UTC Revision 1 . . . . mbork – I perform date arithmetic pretty often in Emacs Calc. One problem I’ve always had with that is that entering date forms is very far from ergonomic. (To be fair to Calc, once you get used to how Org mode allows to enter dates, basically any other way of entering them feels slow and inconvenient. This is what Org manual says about it: “The actions of the date/time prompt may seem complex, but I assure you they will grow on you, and you will start getting annoyed by pretty much any other way of entering a date/time out there” – and boy, is it true!) So, it occurred to me that it would be great to be able to use the Org date prompt in Calc. Of course, this is Emacs, so it shouldn’t be difficult, right?