Re: org-today broken

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2019-02-01, at 13:55, Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:
>
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> recent versions of maint and probably master have nil instead of
>>> current time in org-today.
>>>
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>>>   time-subtract(nil (0 0 0))
>>>   org-today()
>>>   (message "org today is %s" (org-today))
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  I introduced this and a handful of other related
>> incompatibilities with my port of Emacs's c75f505de.  I've reverted the
>> problematic spots.
>
> Thanks for the revert!
>
> Occasionally I like to bend time to see what the agenda would look like
> if another day was current.  This can be achieved conveniently when
> solely function "current-time" is the source for the current time.
>
> So I'm all for using the explicit calls to current-time instead of using
> alternatve sources for the current time.

You are aware that datefudge exists, aren't you?

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/datefudge.1.html

My 2 cents,

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Marcin Borkowski
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