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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing the time of one instance of a recurring appointment
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hqerlml.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B75A8E6.5050106@ccbr.umn.edu> (Erik Iverson's message of "Fri\, 12 Feb 2010 13\:15\:50 -0600")

Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I did not see this addressed in the manual or FAQ.
>
> Say I have a recurring appointment, every third Monday of the month,
> at 11:30 AM, no problem:
>
> ** Monthly meeting with Boss <%%(diary-float t 1 3)>11:30
>
> Now, my boss emails me and says, let's change next week's meeting to
> 10:30.  How would you handle that?  Just simply change the 11:30 to
> 10:30 and remember to change it back next week?  Add a new one-off
> appointment for 10:30 that day and ignore the 11:30 one on your
> agenda? Or is there some way to do this built into org-mode already?

For these types of meetings I use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift (C-c
C-x c) to copy the entry and shift the date ahead appropriately.  This
creates separate tasks for each meeting and I'm free to move individual
tasks around as required.

HTH,
Bernt

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-16  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-12 19:15 changing the time of one instance of a recurring appointment Erik Iverson
2010-02-16  1:54 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]

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