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I have the following in my init.el file:

(setq org-agenda-span 36)
(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 1)
(setq european-calendar-style t)

However, diary blocks are still interpreted as month first, then day, then year:

*** Urlaub!
   <%%(diary-block 02 11 2018 10 11 2018)>

is interpreted as "February, 11th, 2018 - October, 11th, 2018".

My Emacs version is: GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21) of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian

My Org-Mode version is: Org-mode version 8.2.10 (release_8.2.10 @ /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/org/)

I remember, that I had it working correctly before. Maybe the issue arose when I updated to Emacs 25.

Zelphir Kaltstahl
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I think european-calendar-style disappeared at some point (I have it as a commented line in my doemacs file). You should use calendar-date-style:

(setq calendar-date-style 'european)

This can be found from the docstring of diary-block:

(diary-block M1 D1 Y1 M2 D2 Y2 &optional MARK)

Block diary entry.

Entry applies if date is between, or on one of, two dates. The order of the input parameters changes according to ‘calendar-date-style’ (e.g. to D1, M1, Y1, D2, M2, Y2 in the European style).

and then from the docstring of calendar-date-style.

JeanPierre
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    Docstrings can be found using `M-x`, `describe-*`(replacing the asterisk with `function`, `variable` and others), `RET` and then entering the item you want to read the docstring of. – Zelphir Kaltstahl Oct 06 '18 at 13:13