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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Effort entry and confusing effort estimates
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Hi Bastien,

On Tue, 21 May 2013, Bastien wrote:

> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> But I'm still confused what 'org-set-effort' expects/interprets 
>> compared to 'org-clock-modify-effort-estimate'. Any clarification 
>> will be much appreciated.
>
> `org-set-effort' allows you to _set_ the effort value.
>
> `org-clock-modify-effort-estimate' allows you to either set the 
> effort value (e.g. if you enter 1:30, the old value will be 
> replaced by this one) or to increment/decrement the effort value 
> by using +mm or +n[hdwmy] -- e.g. entering +1d will increment the 
> current value by 1 day.  "1 day" is interpreted depending on 
> `org-effort-durations', which see.

Thanks for the explanation. I guess I'm confused why one 
formats/converts/checks the input and the other does not. I guess 
this doesn't imply that org-set-effort does anything different, it 
really is just a pure subset of org-clock-modify-effort-estimate.

Thanks,

   -k.