From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting a deadline in a template
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:15:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8109.1340291759@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com> of "Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:48:29 EDT." <CA+G3xFjb-J05kU+VzjVCr44Kk-AxtL8JoVfQB_KELhRi5MKmVQ@mail.gmail.com>
Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but i can't seem to tease it out of the on-line docs. I
> want to set up a capture template for entering incoming work that automatically sets a deadline for
> the item when it's entered. Ideally, I'd like it to set a deadline 4 business hours in the future of
> the current time, but that's a tricky calculation and I'd settle for current time plus a day.
>
> I've tried the naive approach:
> ...
> DEADLINE: %T+1
> ...
>
> Doesn't work so well. What's the proper way?
>
Off the top of my head, I suspect you will need to write your own
function to produce the template you want.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-21 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-21 14:48 Setting a deadline in a template Michael Baum
2012-06-21 15:15 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-06-21 15:29 ` Sylvain Rousseau
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