On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> writes:
>
> > I've been wondering about this for a bit. It would make things a bit
> > more consistent for me if all properties are in the 'properties'-drawer.
> > Or am I missing something here?
>
> The main reason I can think of is that this is historical.  CLOSED: was
> invented long before anyone thought about the need for drawers.
>
> Drawers are an added feature that is not needed to be able to make
> org-mode useful.  I don't think there should be a requirement for having
> a drawer when you mark a task done just to record the CLOSED date.
> Having an option to enable this behaviour would be fine with me.
>

I stumbled recently over this old message which may have relevancy
for this

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/3783


Juri


>
> The idea of including timestamps in property drawers is a fairly recent
> development in org-mode.
>