From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: r.thiel@uni-jena.de, org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: timestamp with repeater interval
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:22:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17AE3133-267B-4750-9CA6-CC317B179295@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aam25gei.fsf@fastmail.fm>
On Oct 25, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Matt Lundin wrote:
> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:11:34 +0200, Rainer Thiel <r.thiel@uni-
>> jena.de> wrote:
>
>>>>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#org-diary-class
>>>
>>> This would be exactly what I need -- if it really worked. It does
>>> not
>>> for me, probably because I haven't really understood how it is
>>> supposed to work. I should have expected that an entry like this:
>>>
>>> * TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
>>> <%%(org-diary-class 10 18 2010 2 12 2011 3)>
>>>
>>> in one of my agenda files would make show up an agenda entry every
>>> Wednesday between Oct 18th, 2010 and Feb 12, 2011 in my agenda. But
>>> this is not the case, nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> What is wrong (if you can call it that) is that the actual argument
>> list to the org-diary-class function depends on the settings of a
>> couple of variables: calendar-date-style and/or
>> european-calendar-style.
I have been wondering for many years: What was Edward M. Reingold
thinking when he made this horrible decision. I mean, local
dependencies when parsing plain text dates - I guess there is
no way around it. But in a function call? Sequence of arguments?
What?????
Cheers
- Carsten
>> As I have the former set to 'iso, in my case
>> I need to specify dates in the Y M D order:
>>
>> * TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
>> <%%(org-diary-class 2010 10 18 2011 2 12 3)>
>>
>> You may need to do the same.
>>
>> I've cc-ed the org-mode list for others to be aware of this as well.
>
> Thanks for this clarification Eric. I updated the FAQ accordingly.
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 11:48 Repeating timestamps with a finish date Christopher Witte
2010-10-19 11:49 ` Christopher Witte
2010-10-21 1:31 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-21 6:51 ` timestamp with repeater interval Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <AANLkTimc5msQ188GdAG=394cH2Krvkrk3pZ7SRZOLfYp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-24 17:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-25 17:30 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-26 5:22 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-26 8:46 ` French abbreviations for the week days (`lun.', `mar.', `mer.', ...) Sébastien Vauban
2010-12-21 9:24 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-26 8:13 ` timestamp with repeater interval Eric S Fraga
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-18 16:17 Rainer Thiel
2010-10-18 16:52 ` Greg Troxel
2010-10-18 17:49 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <AANLkTikXibUsDeJ3oECL1enGF7yWscjFxwZYJNZj=dZJ@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-19 8:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-19 22:16 ` Rainer Thiel
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