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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Subject: Re: Agenda Bulk Scatter bug
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:51:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36CED999-3462-41AA-8A19-6FB41A0F967B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EE7AE4-27D5-4925-A4AF-6B0E93C00164@gmail.com>


On Jun 14, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:05 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
> 
>> * carsten.dominik@gmail.com [2011-06-10 Fri 09:20]
>>> Hi, I need a few testers:  Something very strange is going on here.
>>> 
>>> When I evaluate this form
>>> 
>>> (decode-time (days-to-time (time-to-days (current-time))))
>>> 
>>> I get a date in the year 3980.  I think this used to work.
>>> Is there anyone who has an idea what is going on here?
>> 
>> (decode-time (days-to-time (time-to-days (current-time))))
>> => (0 0 1 10 6 3980 2 t 3600)
>> 
>> With "GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
>> 2011-02-10 on keller, modified by Debian".
>> 
>> (time-to-days) returns the number of days since 0001-12-31bce, which
>> (days-to-time) converts into a time value. That time value is relative
>> to 0001-12-31bce, _not_ relative to 1970-01-01, which is what
>> (decode-time) is expecting.
>> 
>> Hence you end up 1970 years out.
> 
> Thank you for the analysis - the bulk scattering
> command should now again work as advertised.

OK, only after the git server starts working again.

Until then, here is the patch:

diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
index 65f37d4..b519ff2 100644
--- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
+++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
@@ -8199,9 +8199,11 @@ The prefix arg is passed through to the command if possible."
                               (setq day-of-week 0)))))
                   ;; silently fail when try to replan a sexp entry
                   (condition-case nil
-                      (org-agenda-schedule nil
-                                           (days-to-time
-                                            (+ (org-today) distance)))
+                      (let* ((date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute
+                                    (+ (org-today) distance)))
+                             (time (encode-time 0 0 0 (nth 1 date) (nth 0 date)
+                                                (nth 2 date))))
+                        (org-agenda-schedule nil time))
                     (error nil)))))))
 
      ((equal action ?f)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-14  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-04  4:54 Agenda Bulk Scatter bug Robert Cunningham
2011-06-08 12:33 ` Christian Egli
2011-06-10  8:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-10  9:05   ` David Edmondson
2011-06-14  8:41     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-14  8:51       ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-06-10 19:16   ` Achim Gratz
2011-06-10 19:51     ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-10 21:32   ` Michael Brand
2011-06-11  8:43   ` Robert Cunningham

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