From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: changing the time of one instance of a recurring appointment Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:10 -0500 Message-ID: <877hqerlml.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> References: <4B75A8E6.5050106@ccbr.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NhCdo-0003r6-3C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:20 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36668 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NhCdn-0003qy-9Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhCdm-0004zQ-Bi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:19 -0500 Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.71]:49809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhCdm-0004zM-9c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B75A8E6.5050106@ccbr.umn.edu> (Erik Iverson's message of "Fri\, 12 Feb 2010 13\:15\:50 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Erik Iverson Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Erik Iverson writes: > Hello, > > I did not see this addressed in the manual or FAQ. > > Say I have a recurring appointment, every third Monday of the month, > at 11:30 AM, no problem: > > ** Monthly meeting with Boss <%%(diary-float t 1 3)>11:30 > > Now, my boss emails me and says, let's change next week's meeting to > 10:30. How would you handle that? Just simply change the 11:30 to > 10:30 and remember to change it back next week? Add a new one-off > appointment for 10:30 that day and ignore the 11:30 one on your > agenda? Or is there some way to do this built into org-mode already? For these types of meetings I use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift (C-c C-x c) to copy the entry and shift the date ahead appropriately. This creates separate tasks for each meeting and I'm free to move individual tasks around as required. HTH, Bernt