Re: FR: Repeated time stamp, jumping from current time

[Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>]

I think even if it is not a deadline, just personal scheduled stuff (no 
"external force") , there are cases where you just want to do things 
periodically at a certain date/time, so we should keep the old behavior. 
We don't have to choose between these two (jumping from current date and 
jumping from the scheduled date). We can just add a new feature.
> Here are my thoughts on the issue:
>
> I think of SCHEDULED as my personal plan to start doing something at a
> specified time.  In this interpretation, having something scheduled
> for the past does not make sense, or more precisely, it should be
> functionally equivalent to scheduling it for "now" (except that it
> reminds you that you're behind schedule).  Therefore, I'd vote for
> jumping from the current date, not from the time in the SCHEDULED
> timestamp.
>
> Your example of paying a bill is, in my view, a DEADLINE, an
> externally imposed requirement.  Since whomever imposed the deadline
> on you does not care about your personal scheduling, the jumping in
> deadlines should be from the time indicated in the timestamp.
>
> Thanks,
> Piotr
>
>  An
>   
>>  example is changing my furnace filter. I am supposed to change it once a
>>  month, but if I am late for 10 days, the next date to change should be
>>  30 days away, not 20 days away.
>>
>>  Maybe we can use a syntax like this to indicate that:
>>
>>  <2008-03-01 Sat +=1m>
>>
>>  Any comments? Thank you.
>>
>>  Wanrong
>>
>>
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