Setting a deadline in a template

Setting a deadline in a template

[Michael Baum]

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I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but i can't seem to tease it out
of the on-line docs. I want to set up a capture template for entering
incoming work that automatically sets a deadline for the item when it's
entered. Ideally, I'd like it to set a deadline 4 business hours in the
future of the current time, but that's a tricky calculation and I'd settle
for current time plus a day.

I've tried the naive approach:
...
DEADLINE: %T+1
...

Doesn't work so well. What's the proper way?

Thanks,
maaab

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Re: Setting a deadline in a template

[Nick Dokos]

Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but i can't seem to tease it out of the on-line docs. I
> want to set up a capture template for entering incoming work that automatically sets a deadline for
> the item when it's entered. Ideally, I'd like it to set a deadline 4 business hours in the future of
> the current time, but that's a tricky calculation and I'd settle for current time plus a day.
> 
> I've tried the naive approach:
> ...
> DEADLINE: %T+1
> ...
> 
> Doesn't work so well. What's the proper way?
> 

Off the top of my head, I suspect you will need to write your own
function to produce the template you want.

Nick

Re: Setting a deadline in a template

[Sylvain Rousseau]

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Something like:

(format-time-string
 (car org-time-stamp-formats)
 (time-add (current-time) (seconds-to-time (* days 60 60 24))))

Sylvain.

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