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From: Christian Schlauer <cs-muelleimer-rubbish.bin@arcor.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Midnight and noon in agendas
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:24:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5ps7t$a0u$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 557dbdb730ac757ac762ce384b209915@science.uva.nl

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> However, it can be useful to schedule something at 24:21 or even at
> 26:00 or so. because if you put such a date on your agenda for the
> next day, you might find out too late....

I see the problem, but I don't like these time formats at all. I'd
prefer if the agenda would show me things that are scheduled "early"
the next day (before 06:00, for example, should be configurable) on
the previous day already (and on the actual day).

Also, 26:00 is against the rules ;-)

,----[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ]
| hh refers to an hour between 00 and 24, where 24 is only used to
| notate the midnight at the end of a calendar date
`----

,----[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Midnight_00:00_and_24:00 ]
| Time-of-day notations beyond 24:00 (such as 24:01 or 25:59) are
| neither commonly used nor covered by any relevant standards,
| although they have been seen on rare occasions in Japan.
`----

-- 
Christian Schlauer

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-02 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01 23:36 Midnight and noon in agendas Daniel J. Sinder
2006-06-02  5:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-06-02 13:18   ` Jason F. McBrayer
2006-06-02 14:02   ` J. David Boyd
2006-06-02 14:11   ` Michael Olson
2006-06-02 14:24     ` Carsten Dominik
2006-06-02 17:24       ` Christian Schlauer [this message]
2006-06-02 20:46         ` Carsten Dominik
2006-06-03  9:35           ` Christian Schlauer
2006-06-02 19:45   ` Daniel J. Sinder
2006-06-02 20:51     ` Carsten Dominik

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