From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Set timestamp duration Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:58:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r6kvt2ki.fsf@aka.i.naked.iki.fi> <87ir67nepm.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87vea5s9uf.fsf@aka.i.naked.iki.fi> <87tzpp9z4m.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYjJV-0002sy-Nl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:17:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYjJV-0002sQ-8c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:17:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYjJV-0002sD-2A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:17:01 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYjJU-0007zc-Ou for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:17:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tzpp9z4m.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> 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: Bastien Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Sep 20, 2007, at 16:42, Bastien wrote: > Nuutti Kotivuori writes: > >> The problem with that is that when I press C-c . it defaults to the >> current date and time when over a timestamp, instead of the time that >> is specified on the timestamp - so to modify it, I have to do as much >> work as I did when creating it. > > I think it should defaults to the date specified by the timestamp, as > it > already does when the point is at the end of "<2007-05-16 Wed>--" > >> For me, the *duration* of an appointment is the main piece of >> information I usually have - not when it is going to end. So I don't >> want to spend my measly brain cells to consider what's 5 and a half >> hours from 11:40, but just say 5:30 as the duration (or 5h30 or 5.5 or >> whatever). > > Yes. Maybe we could have something like this for duration: > > * Pick up Sam at school <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w :2h> > ^^^ Hmmm, I am not in favor of a new syntax inside the time stamp, but I would like to think about a special syntax understood by org-read-date to specify time ranges by something like 10:25+2:30. Just for those of us having trouble to compute with the Babylonian base 60 :-) Comments? - Carsten