From: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fractional hours for timestamps?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:34:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp974wng.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmi39uk6m42.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (Greg Troxel's message of "Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:39:41 -0400")
Hi Greg,
Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:
> I tried to set a timestamp "thu 12:00+1.5", using C-c . and typing the
> characters in quotes. What I got was
> <2010-08-12 Thu 12:00-13:00>
>
> I found that 12:00+1:30 works fine, but it seems like 1.5 should be
> parsed.
>
> Separately, I'd like 24-hour time without colons to work. "thu 1400"
> seems unambiguous, but just shows up as thursday without a time.
>
> I don't know how hard these are or if there are reasons not to, but I
> thought I'd throw out the idea.
It is certainly harder to make Org's parsing capacity even more elastic
than to let our brains parse this directly :)
12:00+1.5 looks weird to me and computing 1.5->1:30 is straightforward.
Same for 1400->14:00.
But maybe other people think otherwise...
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-12 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-12 12:39 fractional hours for timestamps? Greg Troxel
2010-08-12 16:34 ` Bastien [this message]
2010-08-12 18:22 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-08-13 8:28 ` Bastien
2010-08-13 9:43 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-08-16 10:38 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-16 11:28 ` Richard Riley
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