Re: Problem searching CLOSED and DEADLINE properties

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Bart Parliman <bartp@lanl.gov>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem searching CLOSED and DEADLINE properties
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:48:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520C8D64-5A7E-47CE-93B8-965CAE3C54C4@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0901071258120.5393@aniakchak.lanl.gov>

On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Bart Parliman wrote:

> When the example file below is added to the agenda file list, and I  
> perform an agenda property search (C-c C-a m), I can't seem to  
> locate any CLOSED items if I use the date matching format, for  
> example these don't work...
>
> CLOSED>="<2009-01-01>"

This one works fine for me.

>
> CLOSED="<2009-01-07>"

This one does not, because the CLOSED time stamp
in the example also contains a time, while you comparison value is  
taken to be at midnight.

> ... but a regexp search like this...
>
> CLOSED={2009}
>
> ... works fine.  For DEADLINE, an exact date matches fails...
>
> DEADLINE="<2009-01-28>"

For me it works fine.

- Carsten

>
>
> ... but an inequality match succeeds...
>
> DEADLINE>="<2009-01-28>"
>
> FWIW I'm using version 6.17b.  Am I just using this format  
> incorrectly?
>
> Thanks,
> Bart
>
> -------- file start --------
> #+SEQ_TODO: NEXT WAITING | DONE
> #+STARTUP: overview
>
> * DONE Test1
>  CLOSED: [2009-01-07 Wed 12:26]
>
> * NEXT Test2
>  DEADLINE: <2009-01-28 Wed>
>
> * Test3
>
> --------  file end  --------
>
>
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