Re: Deadline count down in working days

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Rick Moynihan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I realise this functionality is probably in org already, but I can't  
> seem to find it mentioned anywhere (though perhaps I'm not looking  
> very hard).
>
> Currently when I look at my agenda I see this:
>
> gtd:   In              5 d.:  TODO [#A] A particular work related task
>
> The 5d countdown includes weekends however.  Is it possible to get  
> org to exclude weekends from these countdowns, so I know how many  
> working days I have?
>
> As I use org for both, personal and work related stuff what might be  
> nice is if org could calculate work tasks in working-days and  
> personal tasks in week-days for the agenda view e.g:
>
> Thursday  27 March 2008
> gtd:   In              2 wd.:  TODO [#A] A particular work related  
> task :WORK:
> gtd:   In              4 d. :  TODO [#A] Arrange holiday  
> insurance :PERSONAL:
>
> Where both tasks would be due on the same day (Monday 31 March  
> 2008). Here I've changed the suffix for the work task to wd to  
> indicated working-days and left the d suffix to indicate days.
>
> Thanks again!

Hmmm, I personally do not like this idea too much, I would find it  
confusing.
And it is not easy to implement, because you might want to remove  
holidays as well etc.

So what I will do is give you a hook to customize this yourself:

    (setq org-agenda-deadline-leaders '("Deadline:  " my-org-deadline- 
leader))

where my-org-deadline-leader is a function that will return the correct
string that you would like to have as a leader.  For inspiration and  
example,
here is on that gives the time in weeks or month if it is too long.


(defun org-deadline-leader (diff date)
   (cond
    ((> (abs diff) 61) (format "In %3d m.: " (/ diff 30.6)))
    ((> (abs diff) 21) (format "In %3d w.: " (/ diff 7.0)))
    (t (format "In %3d d.: " diff))))



This is in the git repo now.

- Carsten