Hello I am new to Emacs and I have started using org mode for improving my productivity.
Currently when I press C-c . the date format displayed is <2016-01-26 Thu> I would like to change it to <Thu Jan 26th 2016>
How do I make the corresponding changes in my .emacs?
You can start with something like this:
(setq-default org-display-custom-times t)
(setq org-time-stamp-custom-formats '("<%a %b %e %Y>" . "<%a %b %e %Y %H:%M>"))
This will give you <Thu Jan 26 2016> for date timestamps or <Thu Jan 26 2016 11:30> for timestamps with times. If you want zero-padded dates instead of blank-padded dates use %d instead of %e above (e.g., if you want 09 instead of 9, but I figured blank-padded would be better if you figure out a way to add the ordinal suffix). For a comprehensive list of the formatting symbols, see here. You can try to combine this with the solution here as suggested by @KaushalModi, but I haven't gotten that to work yet.
Also, if you use custom timestamps in org-mode, be aware that there are sometimes undesired side-effects: see this question and answer and this page from the org manual.
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Jan 27, 2016 at 18:38
C-h v org-time-stamp-formatsandC-h f format-time-string. AFAIK, there isn't a built-in way to suffix the likes ofst,nd,rd,thafter the dates. Without those suffixes, the answer is easy. Update: Well, looks like there is a way to add those ordinal suffixes.org-display-custom-timesandorg-time-stamp-custom-formatsmight be the variables designed for user to tweak.