Re: Why don't datetrees use timestamps?

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

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On 16 March 2015 at 16:52, Subhan Michael Tindall <SubhanT@familycareinc.org
> wrote:

>  You can use a custom capture template and have timestamps of various
> sorts inserted.
>
> For example, I have one datetree I use that inserts a date/time stamp
> using %T (%t gives only date, not time)
>
> See the documentation for capture (hit C-c C C  to get into the customize
> interface then scroll down)
>

​ My question was about the datetree entry headings of the form "2015-03-16
Monday". These aren't controlled by the template. I was interested to know
why these headings look very much like timestamps (and effectively are
timestamps, though at the top level they mention just a year and at the
second level just a year and a month), but aren't actual timestamps.

Eric Fraga said "I don't think it would make sense for the headlines in the
date-tree to have time stamps"; but my question is not why they don't have
time stamps, but why they ARE not time stamps (purely in the formal sense:
the information they contain is already effectively a time stamp, as far as
I can see).

I was hoping to discover the rationale for the design from a developer :)

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