Re: missing appointments

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> >
> >> ;; wrong
> >> (setq org-appt-timer (run-at-time "00:01" nil (function org-agenda-to-appt)))
> > [...]
> >> o finally, I would like to add a call at midnight every day to
> >>   recalculate appointments for the next day - unfortunately, the call
> >>   above is not correct, so for now I do it manually with an
> >>   org-agenda-redo as above.  One of these days I'll get that fixed. If
> >>   anybody has done that already, I'll gladly steal your code :-)
> >
> > http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-14-1
> >
> > Memnon
> 
> Heh!  Even I had to look that up... and it's my document!
> 
> For the list archives I think this is the relevant part of the above
> link (since the sec-14-1 is likely to change in the future)
> 
> ; If we leave Emacs running overnight - reset the appointments one minute after midnight
> (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'bh/org-agenda-to-appt)
> 
> This originally came from Carsten Dominik years ago ... when I was
> setting up my appt for the first time.
> 
> Thanks Carsten!
> 

Thanks, Memnon! And Bernt and Carsten (and also Russell Adams who had it in
the hack I mentioned yesterday)!

I'm not sure I understand how it works, but I've added it (plus some
debugging) and we'll see how it goes: is the "24:01" a relative time or
an absolute time? I can't make heads or tails of the run-at-time doc.
And what reschedules it for next time? Doesn't the timer fire once (if REPEAT
is nil) and then it's done? I remember I had some misconceptions
about run-at-time before and these are probably more misconceptions on
my part. One of these days, I'll dust the cobwebs out (but they keep
returning...)

Nick