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From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>
Subject: Re: Time estimates time format?
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:57:02 +0200
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Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:

> But I'd like to make estimates in days, weeks or even months. 

You can certainly do that. Have a look at org-effort-durations. You
could for example define the effort as '2d', '4w' or '7m'.

> And have spent time displayed in percentage of the estimate. Is this
> possible?

You might be able to do something along this line. Have a look at the
doc string of org-properties-postprocess-alist where it gives you an
example on how to calculate the remaining time (clocked vs estimated).

HTH
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Christian Egli
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