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From: "Chris Randle" <chris@amlog.co.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Problem with date calculations in a table
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:24:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76D4727F59354728AA93049264DCF1F7@CUBE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17380.1218757692@alphaville.usa.hp.com>

Nick Dokos wrote:
> I've been trying to make a table with the following structure: column
> 1 contains either a date or is empty; column 2 contains a date that's
> calculated from the corresponding date in column 1 (if column 1
> contains a date) or is empty (if column 1 is empty). In the example
> below, column 2 is supposed to be the date 12 hours or 0.5 days after
> the date in column 1 (assuming that it is non-empty).     

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.

-- 
Chris Randle
Org-mode 6.06b - Emacs 22.1.1 - Windows XP

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-15  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-14 23:48 Problem with date calculations in a table Nick Dokos
2008-08-15  9:24 ` Chris Randle [this message]
2008-08-15 11:56   ` Nick Dokos
     [not found] <20080815115807.E38CF21E5C@mailhost.cs.tu-berlin.de>
2008-08-15 17:20 ` Stephan Schmitt

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