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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time specifications: Allow specifying relative times
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:05:53 +0200
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Hi Ilya,

Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
> Btw, I couldn't quite understand the exact meaning of :block, :tstart and
> :tend as decribed in the manual.  Is there a better explanation
> somewhere?

The block allows you to specify some chunk which is definable easily:
- yesterday
- lastweek
- thismonth
- 2012-02
- 2012-03-30
- etc.

  #+BEGIN: clocktable :scope ("file.org") :block 2012-02
  #+END:

`tstart' and `tend' serve for when you want to specify some range of dates
which is not expressable that way: for example, last Monday (`tstart') to
Wednesday (`tend').

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban