Re: Bug: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Chris Randle <chris@amlog.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2011-03-18 21:20, Nick Dokos wrote:
> > Mark S<throaway@yahoo.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> I posted this before as a question, but since it has been confirmed by
> >> others, and shows up under Linux and Windows, I'll now post the
> >> details as a bug.
> >>
> >> The Timeline view *would* be very useful for scheduling months in
> >> advance, reviewing history, or printing a year event
> >> calendar. Unfortunately, it appears that it can't really be trusted.
> >> The basic problem is that in AGENDA TIMELINE view ("C-a L") recurring
> >> items are frequently and unpredictably dropped from the view. The
> >> regular AGENDA view works fine AFAIK -- its the TIMELINE that is at
> >> issue.
> >
> > AFAICT, the culprit is org-get-all-dates: it matches date strings, translates
> > to number of days since the (imaginary) date 0001-12-31bce,
> > accumulates them in a list, sorts them, takes care of gaps - but
> > completely ignores any repeaters: iow, the "don't always show" in the
> > Subject line should more accurately say "never show".
> 
> Unless I'm missing something (again!), when I try it, they *do* repeat
> *sometimes*. For example, the entry
> 
> TODO [#A] Bath for dog <2011-03-10 Thu +1w>
> 
> appears in agenda timeline as follows:
> 
> 2011-03-10, miss 1 week, 2011-03-24, 2011-03-31, 2011-04-07, miss 7
> weeks, 2011-06-02, miss 8 weeks (agenda terminates 2011-07-31).
> 

That's true. I believe that's when it coincides with another entry: it
sneaks in on the heels of the other entry. But I may very well be wrong:
I have only scratched the surface a bit.

Nick