From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Parliman Subject: Re: Problem searching CLOSED and DEADLINE properties Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:00:04 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: References: <520C8D64-5A7E-47CE-93B8-965CAE3C54C4@uva.nl> <65D1ACB6-E5C9-4311-887A-45F9DB36F179@uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLMaf-0004AY-GD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:00:17 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLMab-00047l-S3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:00:15 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34197 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLMab-00047f-Iv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:00:13 -0500 Received: from mail.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.26]:55609 helo=proofpoint2.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLMab-0007V2-1F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:00:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <65D1ACB6-E5C9-4311-887A-45F9DB36F179@uva.nl> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Bart Parliman wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Carsten Dominik wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Bart Parliman wrote: >>> >>>> When the example file below is added to the agenda file list, and I >>>> perform an agenda property search (C-c C-a m), I can't seem to locate any >>>> CLOSED items if I use the date matching format, for example these don't >>>> work... >>>> CLOSED>="<2009-01-01>" >>> >>> This one works fine for me. >>> >>>> CLOSED="<2009-01-07>" >>> >>> This one does not, because the CLOSED time stamp >>> in the example also contains a time, while you comparison value is taken >>> to be at midnight. >>> >>>> ... but a regexp search like this... >>>> CLOSED={2009} >>>> ... works fine. For DEADLINE, an exact date matches fails... >>>> DEADLINE="<2009-01-28>" >>> >>> For me it works fine. >>> >>> - Carsten >>> >>>> ... but an inequality match succeeds... >>>> DEADLINE>="<2009-01-28>" >>>> FWIW I'm using version 6.17b. Am I just using this format incorrectly? >> >> My apologies. I recently installed 6.17b, but to the wrong lisp target >> directory (i.e. so I was effectively using an older version of the code, >> 6.12b I think). After installing it in the proper directory this works >> fine. > > :-) Yes, many problems come from running one version and reading the manual > of another version :-) > > I am glad it works. Even though, looking at your post, I am wondering if it > would be useful > to limit the comparison to "date-only" if the comparison value is a date > without a time....... > > - Carsten That's probably a good idea to avoid confusion, though I'm not sure how often one searches for a specific day with these. For closed items I tend to use a timeline display, but was looking at using a range of dates instead when I noticed the problem. The only reason I tried a single date was to produce another data point after I noticed that the '>=' seemed to fail. Bart