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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Subject: Re: Timestamps in properties not exported by icalendar exporter
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Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> I mean, those entries show up in the agenda, so I found it rather
>> surprising that they are completely ignored by the exporter.
>
> This is an agenda bug, which probably use a regexp to find timestamps.
> But timestamps in properties are not valid Org timestamps, per Org
> syntax.

OK.

>> I think it would make sense if the exporter also looked for
>> time-stamps in the properties.
>
> There are already plenty of locations to use timestamps. We have
> scheduled, deadline, plain timestamps... I don't think we need more of
> them.

It's these multitude of timestamp locations which makes changing the
timestamp of an existing entry through Elisp so tedious (I had to deal
with that in org-caldav), so using a property for it seemed like a good
idea. Anyway, I understand your reasoning, and I guess we should change
how gnus-icalendar generates its Org entries.

-David