From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: scheduled item taking time from inactive time stamp Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:37:08 +0000 Message-ID: <18851.56292.313670.539310@lobo.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <547849.78457.qm@web28303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <0576FFE1-09CF-4CF1-8A59-B80C87A8DC24@uva.nl> <18846.43978.321051.411022@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <18846.47429.876760.8948@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <18846.49622.996441.373253@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LbvbK-0004q8-WD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:27 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LbvbG-0004pw-Dn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:25 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55367 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbvbG-0004pt-Ax for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:22 -0500 Received: from vscane-c.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.43]:51465) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbvbF-0005ZP-U1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:37:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Spike Spiegel Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Spike Spiegel writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > It's because I sometimes want to sort entries according to date/time > > of creation as opposed to date/time of actual activity performed. I > > can work around this without difficulty, I think, so thanks all again > > for all the input! > > Mind sharing how? because I had the some problem and so far have no > solution. I'm new to emacs and orgmode and learning elisp is taking me > some time, but ultimately I see no way of doing that without having a > property CREATED and then sorting functions able to account for it. I guess I worded my answer badly. I am working around this by including both time and date in an inactive time stamp (%U) but making sure that, if I subsequently schedule the item, I specify a time explicitly in the active time stamp. This seems to override the time in the inactive time stamp. Although not ideal for those tasks that need not be scheduled for a specific time, it works. When specifying a scheduled time really doesn't make much sense, I simply put either 8:00, so that they appear first in my day schedule, or 19:00 which makes them appear last, giving me a simple priority view of the tasks. For overdue tasks, the time in either the active or inactive time stamps is ignored, appearing simply as Sched. Nx. So, my solution is to avoid the problem, being inherently lazy... If anybody else has a better solution, please do let me know! Hope this helps. eric -- MC . -.. --- - ..-. .-. .- --. .- .- - ..- -.-. .-.. .- -.-. ..- -.- NL Professor Eric S Fraga, Chemical Engineering, University College London BF >++++++++++[>++++++++++>+++++++++++[<]>-]>++.>++++.<-----.++++++.------.