From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: RE: Problem with date calculations in a table
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:20:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A5BADA.4070507@cs.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080815115807.E38CF21E5C@mailhost.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Nick Dokos wrote:
> Chris Randle wrote:
>> I had problems getting date arithmetic to work in tables. I posted my
>> findings and solutions here:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/6536/
>>
>> Don't know if it will fix your problem (too lazy to try!) but I suspect
>> it will.
>>
> It did! I don't understand the details yet but the following seems to do
> what I want:
>
> | start | ETA (start + 12 hrs) |
> |----------------------+------------------------|
> | 2008-08-14 Thu 18:15 | <2008-08-15 Fri 06:15> |
> | | |
>
> #+TBLFM: $2=(date(<$1>) ? <$1>+0.5 : string(""))
>
> The date in the first column can be just a string as above, a passive
> date or an active date (the file is not in the agenda list so I don't
> really have to worry about active dates).
>
> Thanks very much,
> Nick
>
>
Hi,
I tried it, too, but got the same time (6:15) when adding
1.0 or 2.0.
how bizarre!
| start | ETA (start + 48 hrs) |
|----------------------+------------------------|
| 2008-08-14 Thu 18:15 | <2008-08-16 Sat 06:15> |
| | |
#+TBLFM: $2=(date(<$1>) ? <$1>+2.0 : string(""))
Greetings,
Stephan
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2008-08-15 17:20 ` Stephan Schmitt [this message]
2008-08-14 23:48 Problem with date calculations in a table Nick Dokos
2008-08-15 9:24 ` Chris Randle
2008-08-15 11:56 ` Nick Dokos
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