On 17 Apr 2012 09:25, "SW" <sabrewolfy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> SW <sabrewolfy <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> > *** <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day          :holiday:
> >
> > and the following appearing on the agenda:
> >
> > File:  <2011-01-01 +1y> New Year's Day          :holiday:
> >
> > What I'm asking about is the fact that the full timestamp itself
appears in <>
> > in the agenda for this entry, but not for other deadline/schedule/plain
> > timestamp entries.

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Hi there,

1) I believe org works much more happily if you don't include timestamps in
headlines.

2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system.
Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary:

(org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Day

Best,

Brian vdB