Re: Timestamps for a whole year, or a year and month

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

At Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:23:32 -0800,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get together a configuration for taking notes for
> historical research using org mode. I think org mode could be very
> useful for this, with its many ways of presenting, sorting and
> searching information in orgmode files.
> 
> One thing that has me a bit stuck, though, is timestamps that might
> represent a year. For instance, it would be nice to write:
> 
>   By <1849> the California Gold Rush had ...

Well, I think I’ve decided that my best bet here is to do the
following:

  By 1849 <1849-01-01> the California Gold Rush had ...

This preserves the information that we are talking about the year
while giving me a time stamp I can use. Alternately one could use a
drawer to hide this information, or put it in the headline.

best, Erik

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