From: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fractional hours for timestamps?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:22:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3tn1yil.fsf@dasa3.iem.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bp974wng.fsf@gnu.org
Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> writes:
> 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...
I think Greg's point is about entering data using only numeric keypad. I
can confirm that I have considered these issues (esp. 1400
vs. 14:00). Fractional hours don't seem to be that easy as there are
countries like Poland where you use comma as decimal point (working with
Emacs' built in calc is a pain) which earns another few lines for
parsing code.
--
Miłego dnia,
Łukasz Stelmach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-12 18:23 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
2010-08-12 18:22 ` Łukasz Stelmach [this message]
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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