From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9695: allowed date range
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:15:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5wp8af8.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009531D7-6FAF-4B1C-80D5-90787542F016@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:02:10 +0200")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> On 13.10.2011, at 09:57, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>>>> Oh, now I see what's wrong. All time stamps consist of the date and
>>>> then the day's name abbreviation, which is missing with your example.
>>>> Correct would be
>>>>
>>>> <2011-10-17 Mon>--<2011-10-30 Sun>
>>>
>>> Although the day is optional according to the regexp. I would
>>> definitely like to have the regexp with the space optional as well as
>>> there are cases where I want to type the date in directly (not in org
>>> mode for whatever reason). In those cases, it is easy to type
>>> 2011-01-01 or whatever but it's not necessarily trivial to determine
>>> the day of the week...
>>
>> Yes, I agree, although you can use org-time-stamp everywhere (in emacs).
>> And you can actually insert timestamps simply by writing
>>
>> <2011-10-13 >
>>
>> with the whitespace to make it a valid timestamp. That will be shown as
>> day entry in the agenda, and you might have typed it in using some
>> non-emacs text editor on you phone.
>
>
>>
>> Now, back in org-mode, simply S-<up> and S-<down> on any number, and et
>> voila, the missing day name abbrev is added automatically.
>>
>>> Actually, interesting thought experiment: does org actually do any
>>> consistency checks, comparing the date and the day of the week?
>>
>> No, I don't think so. Manipulating and creating timestamps using the
>> provided commands ensures their correctness, but for actual calculation
>> the day names are ignored. It's just for humans.
>
> Just to confirm, this is correct.
>
> - Carsten
>
so, in that case, it does make sense to allow date stamps without the
day!
(and I see that Carsten has already provided a patch for this :-)
--
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.380.g54d7df.dirty)
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87ty7kd8oh.fsf@kanis.fr>
2011-10-12 6:53 ` bug#9695: allowed date range Ivan Kanis
2011-10-13 7:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-13 7:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-13 7:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-13 8:02 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-13 10:15 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-10-13 8:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-13 10:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-13 13:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-16 13:45 ` Michael Brand
2011-11-09 18:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-09 21:32 ` Michael Brand
2011-11-03 17:22 ` Michael Brand
[not found] ` <87ehyiitv7.fsf@googlemail.com>
2012-03-23 1:30 ` Glenn Morris
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