* Add "legacy" time tracking as CLOCK entries
@ 2014-01-15 7:51 Richard Walker
2014-01-15 9:38 ` Sebastien Vauban
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From: Richard Walker @ 2014-01-15 7:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi, while I've been using org-mode for some time, I'm now working
on a project where I've decided to use the time-tracking functions.
But I've got some "legacy" time on the project that I would like
to incorporate. I.e., I have in my (paper) log book a record of
(say) half an hour spent on a certain day, but I don't have a record
of the start and end time and I don't want to invent them.
I note that I can add an entry that looks like this:
CLOCK: => 0:30
and have this contribute to totals. But I would
also like to record the date for this entry.
Checking the regular expression in org-clock-sum
and a bit of trial and error showed that
this _doesn't_ work:
CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed] => 0:30
and nor does:
CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed]--[2013-12-11 Wed] => 0:30
But this does seem to work:
CLOCK: => 0:30 [2013-12-11 Wed]
I've figured this out myself on the basis of not finding anything
about it in the manual. Nevertheless, is there a "standard"
way of doing this that I missed?
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2014-01-15 7:51 Add "legacy" time tracking as CLOCK entries Richard Walker
@ 2014-01-15 9:38 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-01-16 5:24 ` Richard Walker
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From: Sebastien Vauban @ 2014-01-15 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ
Richard Walker wrote:
> Hi, while I've been using org-mode for some time, I'm now working
> on a project where I've decided to use the time-tracking functions.
> But I've got some "legacy" time on the project that I would like
> to incorporate. I.e., I have in my (paper) log book a record of
> (say) half an hour spent on a certain day, but I don't have a record
> of the start and end time and I don't want to invent them.
>
> I note that I can add an entry that looks like this:
>
> CLOCK: => 0:30
>
> and have this contribute to totals. But I would
> also like to record the date for this entry.
>
> Checking the regular expression in org-clock-sum
> and a bit of trial and error showed that
> this _doesn't_ work:
>
> CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed] => 0:30
>
> and nor does:
>
> CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed]--[2013-12-11 Wed] => 0:30
>
> But this does seem to work:
>
> CLOCK: => 0:30 [2013-12-11 Wed]
>
> I've figured this out myself on the basis of not finding anything
> about it in the manual. Nevertheless, is there a "standard"
> way of doing this that I missed?
Can't you try to convert your lines to:
CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed 0:00]--[2013-12-11 Wed 0:30] => 0:30
^^^^ ^^^^
duration
This seems the simplest option to me.
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
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2014-01-15 9:38 ` Sebastien Vauban
@ 2014-01-16 5:24 ` Richard Walker
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From: Richard Walker @ 2014-01-16 5:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On 15/01/2014, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com> wrote:
> Richard Walker wrote:
>> I note that I can add an entry that looks like this:
>>
>> CLOCK: => 0:30
>>
>> and have this contribute to totals. But I would
>> also like to record the date for this entry.
...
>
> Can't you try to convert your lines to:
>
> CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed 0:00]--[2013-12-11 Wed 0:30] => 0:30
> ^^^^ ^^^^
> duration
That's just the sort of thing I wanted to avoid.
But now I've found that "my" way doesn't show the durations
in the Agenda views; yours does.
So I have switched all the entries to your way.
On some days, I have several of these entries for
different tasks, so I get "Clocking overlap" errors in
the Day-Agenda view when I use the clockcheck
function.
OK, the solution to that is to ignore those errors ...
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