Re: Bug: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline

[Chris Randle <chris@amlog.co.uk>]

On 2011-03-18 21:20, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Mark S<throaway@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> I posted this before as a question, but since it has been confirmed by
>> others, and shows up under Linux and Windows, I'll now post the
>> details as a bug.
>>
>> The Timeline view *would* be very useful for scheduling months in
>> advance, reviewing history, or printing a year event
>> calendar. Unfortunately, it appears that it can't really be trusted.
>> The basic problem is that in AGENDA TIMELINE view ("C-a L") recurring
>> items are frequently and unpredictably dropped from the view. The
>> regular AGENDA view works fine AFAIK -- its the TIMELINE that is at
>> issue.
>
> AFAICT, the culprit is org-get-all-dates: it matches date strings, translates
> to number of days since the (imaginary) date 0001-12-31bce,
> accumulates them in a list, sorts them, takes care of gaps - but
> completely ignores any repeaters: iow, the "don't always show" in the
> Subject line should more accurately say "never show".

Unless I'm missing something (again!), when I try it, they *do* repeat 
*sometimes*. For example, the entry

TODO [#A] Bath for dog <2011-03-10 Thu +1w>

appears in agenda timeline as follows:

2011-03-10, miss 1 week, 2011-03-24, 2011-03-31, 2011-04-07, miss 7 
weeks, 2011-06-02, miss 8 weeks (agenda terminates 2011-07-31).

-- 
Chris Randle