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* Setting a deadline in a template
@ 2012-06-21 14:48 Michael Baum
  2012-06-21 15:15 ` Nick Dokos
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Baum @ 2012-06-21 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but i can't seem to tease it out
of the on-line docs. I want to set up a capture template for entering
incoming work that automatically sets a deadline for the item when it's
entered. Ideally, I'd like it to set a deadline 4 business hours in the
future of the current time, but that's a tricky calculation and I'd settle
for current time plus a day.

I've tried the naive approach:
...
DEADLINE: %T+1
...

Doesn't work so well. What's the proper way?

Thanks,
maaab

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• * Re: Setting a deadline in a template
    2012-06-21 14:48 Setting a deadline in a template Michael Baum
  @ 2012-06-21 15:15 ` Nick Dokos
    2012-06-21 15:29   ` Sylvain Rousseau
    0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
  From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-06-21 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Michael Baum; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com> wrote:
  
  > I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but i can't seem to tease it out of the on-line docs. I
  > want to set up a capture template for entering incoming work that automatically sets a deadline for
  > the item when it's entered. Ideally, I'd like it to set a deadline 4 business hours in the future of
  > the current time, but that's a tricky calculation and I'd settle for current time plus a day.
  > 
  > I've tried the naive approach:
  > ...
  > DEADLINE: %T+1
  > ...
  > 
  > Doesn't work so well. What's the proper way?
  > 
  
  Off the top of my head, I suspect you will need to write your own
  function to produce the template you want.
  
  Nick
  
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• • * Re: Setting a deadline in a template
      2012-06-21 15:15 ` Nick Dokos
    @ 2012-06-21 15:29   ` Sylvain Rousseau
      0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
    From: Sylvain Rousseau @ 2012-06-21 15:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: nicholas.dokos; +Cc: Michael Baum, emacs-orgmode
    
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    Something like:
    
    (format-time-string
     (car org-time-stamp-formats)
     (time-add (current-time) (seconds-to-time (* days 60 60 24))))
    
    Sylvain.
    
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