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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: formatting times as HH:MM with leading zeros
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:59:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl49ue2m.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21605.1263981063@cpc1-cmbg14-2-0-cust6.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com> (Stephen Eglen's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:51:03 +0000")

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Just a small suggestion here.  In the agenda, an entry like:
> * <2010-01-20 Wed 09:00-09:30> test
>
> gets formatted as follows:
>
> Wednesday  20 January 2010
>                8:00...... ----------------
>   test:        9:00- 9:30 test
>               10:00...... ----------------
>
> the leading whitespace before '9:00' and '9:30' is needed to align the
> times, but having the space after the dash looks odd (at least to my
> latex-trained eyes).  Would it be possible to patch org-agenda to put a
> leading zero rather than leading whitespace.  With this patch, I see:
>
> Wednesday  20 January 2010
>               08:00...... ----------------
>   test:       09:00-09:30 test
>               10:00...... ----------------
>

If I might chime in, I would request that this change be implemented as
an option, not as a default. I greatly prefer the display method as it
stands.

Best,
Matt

>
> diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> index a20bec5..77062ed 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> @@ -4902,6 +4902,7 @@ HH:MM."
>  		    (mod h1 24) h1))
>  	    (t0 (+ (* 100 h2) m))
>  	    (t1 (concat (if (>= h1 24) "+" " ")
> +			(if (< t0 1000) "0" "") ;zero-pad times before 10:00
>  			(if (< t0 100) "0" "")
>  			(if (< t0 10)  "0" "")
>  			(int-to-string t0))))
>

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20  9:51 formatting times as HH:MM with leading zeros Stephen Eglen
2010-01-20 12:59 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-01-20 17:29   ` Stephen Eglen
2010-01-20 19:02     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-01-20 20:28       ` Stephen Eglen
2010-01-21 15:02         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-01-21 15:17         ` Carsten Dominik

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