Re: Add "legacy" time tracking as CLOCK entries

["Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>]

Richard Walker wrote:
> Hi, while I've been using org-mode for some time, I'm now working
> on a project where I've decided to use the time-tracking functions.
> But I've got some "legacy" time on the project that I would like
> to incorporate. I.e., I have in my (paper) log book a record of
> (say) half an hour spent on a certain day, but I don't have a record
> of the start and end time and I don't want to invent them.
>
> I note that I can add an entry that looks like this:
>
>     CLOCK: => 0:30
>
> and have this contribute to totals. But I would
> also like to record the date for this entry.
>
> Checking the regular expression in org-clock-sum
> and a bit of trial and error showed that
> this _doesn't_ work:
>
>     CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed] => 0:30
>
> and nor does:
>
>     CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed]--[2013-12-11 Wed] => 0:30
>
> But this does seem to work:
>
>     CLOCK: => 0:30 [2013-12-11 Wed]
>
> I've figured this out myself on the basis of not finding anything
> about it in the manual. Nevertheless, is there a "standard"
> way of doing this that I missed?

Can't you try to convert your lines to:

      CLOCK: [2013-12-11 Wed 0:00]--[2013-12-11 Wed 0:30] => 0:30
                                                    ^^^^     ^^^^
                                                      duration

This seems the simplest option to me.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban