From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: fractional hours for timestamps?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:38:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A93305E1-813B-4678-9166-0CB380A6832F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5i2kfv1.fsf@dasa3.iem.pw.edu.pl>
On Aug 13, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> writes:
>
>> Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> AFAIC, I won't mess with this part of the code, I think it's quite
>> easy
>> enough to enter 14:00 instead of 1400...
>
> Not really in fact if you use keypad. It's not about the number of
> keystrokes but their layout. Try it.
Hi Lukasz,
the problem with making the parser more general is that it might
start to interpret years as durations and the other way round.
You are welcome to submit a patch - but it would have to be a careful
one.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-16 10:39 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
2010-08-13 8:28 ` Bastien
2010-08-13 9:43 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-08-16 10:38 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-08-16 11:28 ` Richard Riley
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