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Subject: Re: Altering effect of deadline on priority calculation
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:59:46 +0200
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Hi Inanna,

peregrinehill <peregrinehill@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to make deadlines have a larger impact on priority
> calculation than scheduled date, but I can't figure out how to
> extract how many days before or past deadline from an agenda entry.
>  I would also like to extract how many days overdue a task is from
> its scheduled date.
>
> Is there a function that gives me this information easily?
>
> Alternatively, can anybody point me to where priority is increased by
> 1 for each day late?

I'm not sure where do you want to get this information from:
from an agenda view? from a normal buffer?

What value of `org-agenda-sorting-strategy' comes closest to
what you are trying to achieve?

Let us know,

-- 
 Bastien