Re: Repeating task hourly

[Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 12:41, Kevin Liu <kevin@nivekuil.com> wrote:

> The graph works for hourly repeaters in exactly the same way as it 
> works
> in all other cases.  It illustrates whether the task was done on a 
> given
> day.

But what will happen is that the task will be both "done" and "due" on 
the same day.  Which face shall org-habit use?  Which symbol?  The task 
will be shown in the agenda, all right, whether the consistency graph is 
meaningful is another matter.

> As Kyle mentioned, I don't think authorial intent counts for a whole 
> lot
> here since the code was last touched in 2009, years before hourly
> repeaters were added.

I'm not so sure.  Take a look at commit be2806d281 "Fixes to the 
consistency graph in org-habit", by John Wiegley, in 2009-10-22.

There the following error check was then introduced:

    (unless (> sr-days 0)
      (error "Habit's scheduled repeat period is less than 1d"))

Considering `sr-days' was then let-bound with:

    (scheduled-repeat (org-get-repeat "SCHEDULED"))
    (sr-days (org-habit-duration-to-days scheduled-repeat))

And that `org-habit-duration-to-days' performs its conversion of the 
repeaters to days with `floor', I'd say it is pretty deliberate.  If 
this was before the introduction of hourly repeaters, I'd take this to 
be even more meaningful, not less.

Best,
Gustavo.