On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:26 AM, David Bremner wrote:

Bernt Hansen wrote:
Sorry for the confusion - I meant active timestamps _outside_ of the
DEADLINE: or SCHEDULED: entries.

[snip]

but if I add an active timestamp to it like this it does show up

,----[ test.org ]
| * DONE Some task
|   DEADLINE: <2009-01-10 Sat> CLOSED: [2009-01-17 Sat 16:19]
|   - State "DONE"       [2009-01-17 Sat 16:19]
|   <2009-01-10 Sat>
`----

OK, thanks for explaining things for me. So it looks like I should use
DEADLINE instead of plain timestamps.

That, or also set org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-done to t. Before you do,

however, I recommend that you go back to the manual and read again

what exactly a plain time stamp, a scheduled, and a deadline entry

are meant to mean. In particular, check out section 8.3.

- Carsten