I'm exporting my org-mode file to LaTeX, and often use the C-c . timestamp as a top level heading as sort of a rolling diary.
However, when it exports to PDF, <2014-04-25 Fri> looks a little funny. Is there a general setting that would convert the timestamps to some kind of formatted date, like "Friday, April 25, 2014" or some other kind of common datestring format?
I looked here and understand that there are a couple ways of entering dates, but I imagine there must be output formatting, too. I see also that there is an export timestamp setting here,
<:
Toggle inclusion of any time/date active/inactive stamps (org-export-with-timestamps).
But am unclear on what implementation would mean.
Try this:
(let ((org-time-stamp-custom-formats
'("<%A, %B %d, %Y>" . "<%A, %B %d, %Y %H:%M>"))
(org-display-custom-times 't))
(org-latex-export-to-latex))
Upd.: If you want to remove brackets <> from output string, you have to patch the function org-translate-time. Normal behaviour:
(let ((org-time-stamp-custom-formats
'("<%A, %B %d, %Y>" . "<%A, %B %d, %Y %H:%M>"))
(org-display-custom-times 't))
(org-translate-time "<2014-04-29 Tu.>")) => "<Tuesday, April 29, 2014>"
With patched function like here https://gist.github.com/boykov/11387660
(let ((org-time-stamp-custom-formats
'("<%A, %B %d, %Y>" . "<%A, %B %d, %Y %H:%M>"))
(org-display-custom-times 't))
(org-translate-time "<2014-04-29 Tu.>")) => "Tuesday, April 29, 2014"
The brackets <> are hardcoded in the function org-translate-time and you can't remove their by fixing org-time-stamp-custom-formats only.