Re: Deadlines with Time

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

Hi Florian,

On Aug 2, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Florian Beck wrote:

> Hi,
>
> sometimes I want to specify a deadline with a certain time.
>
> Without a time, there is no problem. The deadline shows up a couple of
> times earlier, which is fine.
>
> However, when I specify a time like
>  DEADLINE: <2008-08-04 Mon 16:00>
>
> this shows up in the daily agenda of Saturday like this:
>
>               8:00...... ----------------
>              10:00...... ----------------
>              12:00...... ----------------
>              14:00...... ----------------
>              16:00...... ----------------
>  Plan:       16:00...... In   2 d.:  TODO Some Task
>
> This is not helpful, it does not belong in the timetable for today. I
> want the task to show up in the agenda view, just not in the  
> timetable.
> How can I accomplish that?

This is a bug, and it is fixed now.  Thanks for the report.

>
>
> Also, there is a bug when I add a timestamp to the task:
>
> * TODO Some Task <2008-08-02 Sat 14:00>
>  DEADLINE: <2008-08-04 Mon 16:00>
>
> This is displayed thusly in the agenda view (note the wrong time on  
> the
> second occurance):
>
>               8:00...... ----------------
>              10:00...... ----------------
>              12:00...... ----------------
>              14:00...... ----------------
>  Plan:       14:00...... TODO Some Task
>              16:00...... ----------------
>  Plan:       14:00...... In   2 d.:  TODO Some Task

This one is kind of hard to fix, so please live with it or move  
timestamps for such cases into the body of the entry, not into the  
heading.

HTH

- Carsten