Re: timestamp with repeater interval

From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: r.thiel@uni-jena.de
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: timestamp with repeater interval
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:51:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4l7o4x5.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimc5msQ188GdAG=394cH2Krvkrk3pZ7SRZOLfYp@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:11:34 +0200, Rainer Thiel <r.thiel@uni-jena.de> wrote:
> 
> Many thanks, Eric,
> 
> 2010/10/21 Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>:
> > Matt Lundin has just posted a respond (in another thread) which answers your question:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:31:04 -0400, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:
> >>
> >> > Is there a way to get timestamps that repeat (say weekly) up to a
> >> > certain date when it stops repeating?  I have a weekly appointment that
> >> > will only go for the next 8 weeks and I don't want to have to input
> >> > each appointment separately and I don't want it cluttering up my diary
> >> > beyond it's end date.
> >>
> >> Though you can't yet do this with org-mode timestamps, you can use a
> >> diary sexp. Does the following FAQ help?
> >>
> >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#org-diary-class
> 
> This would be exactly what I need -- if it really worked.  It does not
> for me, probably because I haven't really understood how it is
> supposed to work.  I should have expected that an entry like this:
> 
> * TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
>   <%%(org-diary-class 10 18 2010 2 12 2011 3)>
> 
> in one of my agenda files would make show up an agenda entry every
> Wednesday between Oct 18th, 2010 and Feb 12, 2011 in my agenda.  But
> this is not the case, nothing shows up.  What am I doing wrong?

What is wrong (if you can call it that) is that the actual argument
list to the org-diary-class function depends on the settings of a
couple of variables: calendar-date-style and/or
european-calendar-style.  As I have the former set to 'iso, in my case
I need to specify dates in the Y M D order:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* TODO Class 10:00am-12:00am
  <%%(org-diary-class 2010 10 18 2011 2 12 3)>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You may need to do the same.

I've cc-ed the org-mode list for others to be aware of this as well.

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