From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: fractional hours for timestamps? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:34:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87bp974wng.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42561 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjakE-0008Fg-TH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:35:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjakA-0007dB-TB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:35:06 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:51578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjakA-0007d3-Np for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:35:02 -0400 Received: by eyg24 with SMTP id 24so845197eyg.0 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:35:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:39:41 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Greg Troxel Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Greg, Greg Troxel 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