From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: John J Foerch <jjfoerch@earthlink.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-evaluate-time-range
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:57:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei2dr2d5.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4c5agb7.fsf@hecubus.retroj.net> (John J. Foerch's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:47:56 -0400")
John J Foerch <jjfoerch@earthlink.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the use-case for org-evaluate-time-range,
> because for what I would use it for, its behavior seems
> counter-intuitive. Consider a time range:
>
> <2011-08-12 Fri>--<2011-08-14 Sun>
>
> Calling org-evaluate-time-range on this range reports 2 days, but for
> situations when I would use time ranges, I would have expected an
> _inclusive_ count of 3 days. The span represented from a friday through
> a sunday is indeed a span of 3 days.
>
> Can anyone explain the logic behind the current behavior? Thank you.
Timestamps with no time are considered to be at midnight (00:00)
So Midnight Friday to Midnight Sunday is 48 hours.
-Bernt
--
Bernt
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