So, from a broader perspective, perhaps this org-class stuff is not the right way to go. I am also noticing that the icalendar-export does not seem to be exporting these diary-sexps anyway. Perhaps I can use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift to do most of what I want. Best, Stephen On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > "Stephen J. Barr" writes: > > > What I am now seeing is that the particular date gets picked up, but not > the time. Am I doing something incorrect with the > > syntax? > > > > No, I believe that's a limitation of what you can do with these > diary-sexps. > > You can always add the time to the headline: that way it'll appear in > the agenda (but not in the grid, if you use that, and not sorted > correctly - the time is just a label): > > *** Teaching 7:00pm-8:30pm > <%%(org-class 2014 1 6 2014 3 10 1 1)> > > Nick > > >