Re: [BUG] Incorrect time calculation in agenda clockcheck

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Thanks!

Am 17. Mai 2024 11:45:32 UTC schrieb Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>:
>Raffael Stocker <r.stocker@mnet-mail.de> writes:
>
>> in the Org Agenda clockcheck view, a warning about missing end time of a
>> clocked-in task is displayed together with the already elapsed time of
>> that task.  If the starting time is in the future (this can happen if
>> rounding and continuous clocking are used), the elapsed time is
>> incorrect.  For example, if a clocked-in task starts in 5 minutes,
>> clockcheck will report something like "No end time: (0:55)".  It would
>> be more sensible to say "No end time: (-0:05)" or even "No end time: (in
>> 0:05)".
>
>Thanks for reporting!
>Fixed, on main.
>https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=ee58259bc
>
>> The culprit is the use of ‘org-duration-from-minutes’ in
>> ‘org-agenda-show-clocking-issues’, because org-duration always assumes
>> positive durations and is given a negative one here.  The problem can
>> easily be corrected with something like the following:
>>...
>> However, I believe it would be more useful (and general) to use a
>> similar trick to teach org-duration to work with negative durations.
>
>That's what I ended up doing.
>
>> ... It would be more sensible to ... or even "No end time: (in 0:05)".
>
>I find this confusing, so I left -0:05.
>
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