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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Including current time in agenda
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:34:39 +0100
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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 06 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> So far my attempts have been some variation of `<%%(format-time-string
>>> "%H%M")>' =C2=A0or `<%%(diary-entry-time ...)>'. Am I approaching this =
the
>>
>>> wrong way? Is this not supported by the diary library?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
>>
>> (defun jd:org-current-time ()
>> =C2=A0 "Return current-time if date is today."
>> =C2=A0 (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time" (current-time))))
>>
>> And use %%(jd:org-current-time) in an entry.
>>
>> I think this is what you want?
>
> Julien,
>
> many thanks for proving me wrong! =C2=A0This is great, especially if I ha=
ve
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> *** current time
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0:PROPERTIES:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0:CATEGORY: Now =E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94=
=E2=80=94=E2=96=BA
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0:END:
> %%(jd:org-current-time)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and change your "Current time" string to "=E2=97=84=E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=
=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94". =C2=A0Now all I have to
> do is get rid of the ":" put after the category string and I have a nice
> symmetric time indicator!
>

I actually tried to set the text properties for the string instead,
but looks like org-agenda is ignoring that.

(defun jd:org-current-time ()
  "Return current-time if date is today."
  (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
    (propertize (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time") 'font-lock-face
		'(:weight bold :foreground "DodgerBlue4" :background "snow"))))

--=20
Suvayu

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