Setting timestamp from end time and an interval

Setting timestamp from end time and an interval

[Leo Gaspard]

Hello,

I find myself often working intervals “backwards”, eg. when planning
transportation: I need to be there at XX:YY, thus need to depart 35min
before.

Org-mode has this great feature that when typing `11:12+00:35` it
automatically computes the interval 11:12-11:47.

What I'm wondering is, whether there'd be interest in having
eg. `11:47+-00:35`, that'd create the same interval but from an *end*
time and interval duration.

What do you think about this? Is there already a way of doing this I
don't know of?

Cheers,
Leo

Re: Setting timestamp from end time and an interval

[Leo Gaspard]

Does anyone else find interest in this, or am I the only one having this
want? Does anyone have a better idea of syntax to do this “negative
interval”? `11am+-00:30` looks kind of weird, but `-` is already taken.

Also, I often find myself inputting minutes in those intervals. Do you
think a syntax like `11am+15'` would make sense, instead of
`11am+00:15`, which is less nice to type?

Cheers,
  Leo

Leo Gaspard <orgmode@leo.gaspard.io> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I find myself often working intervals “backwards”, eg. when planning
> transportation: I need to be there at XX:YY, thus need to depart 35min
> before.
>
> Org-mode has this great feature that when typing `11:12+00:35` it
> automatically computes the interval 11:12-11:47.
>
> What I'm wondering is, whether there'd be interest in having
> eg. `11:47+-00:35`, that'd create the same interval but from an *end*
> time and interval duration.
>
> What do you think about this? Is there already a way of doing this I
> don't know of?
>
> Cheers,
> Leo