Re: Re: Set timestamp duration

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Sep 20, 2007, at 16:42, Bastien wrote:

> Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> The problem with that is that when I press C-c . it defaults to the
>> current date and time when over a timestamp, instead of the time that
>> is specified on the timestamp - so to modify it, I have to do as much
>> work as I did when creating it.
>
> I think it should defaults to the date specified by the timestamp, as 
> it
> already does when the point is at the end of "<2007-05-16 Wed>--"
>
>> For me, the *duration* of an appointment is the main piece of
>> information I usually have - not when it is going to end. So I don't
>> want to spend my measly brain cells to consider what's 5 and a half
>> hours from 11:40, but just say 5:30 as the duration (or 5h30 or 5.5 or
>> whatever).
>
> Yes.  Maybe we could have something like this for duration:
>
> * Pick up Sam at school <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w :2h>
>                                                   ^^^

Hmmm, I am not in favor of a new syntax inside the time stamp,  but
I would like to think about a special syntax understood by org-read-date
to specify time ranges by something like 10:25+2:30.  Just for those
of us having trouble to compute with the Babylonian base 60 :-)

Comments?

- Carsten