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From: Thomas Baumann <thomas.baumann@ch.tum.de>
Subject: Re: Suggested change to round timestamps.
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:16:51 +0100
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To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
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Useful, maybe, for accounting purposes, in this case, the calculation of
the timespan in between could be extended to compute and insert a
rounded value.

For other purposes I would stay with the exact value (which of course
is still possible in Alex version), well, this is my personal opinion.

Thomas

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

> Ah, Alex,
>
> yes, thank you for this reminder.  Alex did sent me that patch before.
> I remember that I did like the idea but did not put it in because
> there  are more places in the code that dead with time stamps and that
> would  also have to be modified.  So some work would be needed, right
> now I  don't know how much out of the top of my head.
>
> More people who would find this useful?
>
> - Carsten
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 0:43, Alex Bochannek wrote:
>
>> When I first started using Org-mode to keep track of events during the
>> day, I found the timestamp function extremely handy. I didn't want to
>> keep time to the minute, but round to, e.g., fifteen minute intervals.
>>
>> Attached is the patch that I am proposing. Since it was originally
>> against 4.01, I hope I didn't miss anything important.
>>