bi-monthly steps.

bi-monthly steps.

[Christian Hopps]

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I've the need to display bimonthly clock tables, I was able to add this pretty easy in case the project would find it useful

--- org-clock.el	2020-03-12 06:52:14.000000000 -0400
+++ /Users/chopps/org-clock.el	2020-03-12 06:51:43.000000000 -0400
@@ -2719,6 +2719,7 @@
           (pcase step
             (`day "Daily report: ")
             (`week "Weekly report starting on: ")
+            (`bimonth "Bi-Monthly report starting on: ")
             (`month "Monthly report starting on: ")
             (`year "Annual report starting on: ")
             (_ (user-error "Unknown `:step' specification: %S" step))))
@@ -2768,6 +2769,7 @@
                           (let ((offset (if (= dow week-start) 7
                                           (mod (- week-start dow) 7))))
                             (list 0 0 org-extend-today-until (+ d offset) m y)))
+                         (`bimonth (list 0 0 0 (if (< d 16) 16 1) (if (< d 16) m (1+ m)) y))
                          (`month (list 0 0 0 month-start (1+ m) y))
                          (`year (list 0 0 org-extend-today-until 1 1 (1+ y)))))))
              (table-begin (line-beginning-position 0))

Thanks,
Chris.

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Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Nick Dokos]

"Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
use of it is wrong :-)

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invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler

Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Christian Hopps]

could use semimonth then :)

> On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
> once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
> use of it is wrong :-)
> 
> -- 
> Nick
> 
> "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
> invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
> 
> 

Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Peter Neilson]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:15:04 -0400, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
> once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
> use of it is wrong :-)

Exactly true. "Bi-weekly" is nearly as ambiguous, but is rescued by an  
ensuing discussion: "Which two days of the week did you want (the event)  
to occur?" "Um, ah, I mean every two weeks." "Fine then, let's say that."

I think the original question from Christian Hopps presumes the meaning,  
"Every two months."

Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Eric S Fraga]

On Friday, 13 Mar 2020 at 00:47, Peter Neilson wrote:
> I think the original question from Christian Hopps presumes the
> meaning, "Every two months."

Oh, I took it to mean bi-weekly. ;-)

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Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Loris Bennett]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday, 13 Mar 2020 at 00:47, Peter Neilson wrote:
>> I think the original question from Christian Hopps presumes the
>> meaning, "Every two months."
>
> Oh, I took it to mean bi-weekly. ;-)

Exactly.  So "bi-monthly" just means "twice a week".  I'm sure we can all
agree on that :-)

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Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Michal Politowski]

Fortnightly :)
Such a useful word.

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:55:16 -0400, Christian Hopps wrote:
> could use semimonth then :)
> 
> > On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
> > once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
> > use of it is wrong :-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nick
> > 
> > "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
> > invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler

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semimonthly steps [Re: bi-monthly steps.]

[Christian Hopps]

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FWIW the code was actually unambiguous. :)

I meant "semimonthly" or twice a month (i.e., like some people get paid: 1-15th, 16th-endofmonth).

Thanks,
Chris.

Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Friday, 13 Mar 2020 at 00:47, Peter Neilson wrote:
>>> I think the original question from Christian Hopps presumes the
>>> meaning, "Every two months."
>>
>> Oh, I took it to mean bi-weekly. ;-)
>
> Exactly.  So "bi-monthly" just means "twice a week".  I'm sure we can all
> agree on that :-)


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Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Peter Neilson]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:01:43 -0400, Michal Politowski <mpol@meep.pl> wrote:

> Fortnightly :)
> Such a useful word.

There are 24 semi-months in a year. There are roughly 26 fortnights.

American English seem to allow the adverb semimonthly but generally avoids  
the
British term fortnightly.

There ought to be an unnecessary book English Made Difficult as a  
companion piece to Carl E. Linderholm's book Mathematics Made Difficult.

>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:55:16 -0400, Christian Hopps wrote:
>> could use semimonth then :)
>>
>> > On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
>> > once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
>> > use of it is wrong :-)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Nick
>> >
>> > "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
>> > invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler

Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Christian Hopps]

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I've attached an updated patch using "semimonth".

Thanks,
Chris.


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From 479646d44e11c923b8f64be417e785a175133d13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Hopps <chopps@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 06:58:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] org-clock.el: add semimonth step for clocktables

* lisp/org-clock.el (org-clocktable-steps): add a semimonth step for
producing clock tables.

Originally proposed "bimonth" as name; however, bimonthly is
ambiguous, as it can mean 2 different things, semimonthly or every 2
months.
---
 lisp/org-clock.el | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
index 345fd9b5a..c902635f9 100644
--- a/lisp/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
@@ -2784,6 +2784,7 @@ a number of clock tables."
           (pcase step
             (`day "Daily report: ")
             (`week "Weekly report starting on: ")
+            (`semimonth "Semimonthly report starting on: ")
             (`month "Monthly report starting on: ")
             (`year "Annual report starting on: ")
             (_ (user-error "Unknown `:step' specification: %S" step))))
@@ -2833,6 +2834,9 @@ a number of clock tables."
                           (let ((offset (if (= dow week-start) 7
                                           (mod (- week-start dow) 7))))
                             (list 0 0 org-extend-today-until (+ d offset) m y)))
+                         (`semimonth (list 0 0 0
+                                           (if (< d 16) 16 1)
+                                           (if (< d 16) m (1+ m)) y))
                          (`month (list 0 0 0 month-start (1+ m) y))
                          (`year (list 0 0 org-extend-today-until 1 1 (1+ y)))))))
              (table-begin (line-beginning-position 0))
-- 
2.25.0

Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Kyle Meyer]

Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org> writes:

> I've attached an updated patch using "semimonth".

Applied in 8a99404c8, along with a follow-up commit that adds a test,
updates the manual, and add a NEWS entry.

Thanks.

Re: bi-monthly steps.

[Christian Hopps]

Thanks, and thanks for adding the test and doc updates!

Chris.

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 9:12 PM, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> 
> Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org> writes:
> 
>> I've attached an updated patch using "semimonth".
> 
> Applied in 8a99404c8, along with a follow-up commit that adds a test,
> updates the manual, and add a NEWS entry.
> 
> Thanks.
>