From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Sitz Subject: Re: Does Effort support hours only? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87sjvlg1h1.fsf@gnu.org> <80pqqp4qss.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56447 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqZ07-0004CV-0R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:40:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqZ05-0007rp-Ip for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:40:34 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqZ05-0007rl-C2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:40:33 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqZ02-0006FP-5F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:40:30 +0100 Received: from 97-113-195-207.tukw.qwest.net ([97.113.195.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:40:30 +0100 Received: from hsitz by 97-113-195-207.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:40:30 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Lawrence Mitchell gmx.li> writes: > >>> Is it possible to specify estimated effort in something other than hours > >>> (0.5, or 0:30)? > > > Being able to specify suffixes like `d' for days or `w' for weeks would be > > awesome. But I guess it's very, very complex, though. > > Turns out probably not, unless I've missed something. I think > this set of patches does what's necessary to allow duration > strings in effort properties. And as a bonus its backwards > compatible to the old style. Try it and see if it works, if it > does I'll roll it into a proper patch. > Lawrence -- I didn't test the patch, but it looks like it's hard coded to treat 24 hours as 1 day, 168 hours as 1 week, etc. This seems like it would create more confusion than there was before. In the context of measuring effort I think it's far more common to treat, e.g, 8 hours as the equivalent of a day's work. Most people have 5 day works weeks, but some don't. Etc. In any case, giving user ability to set their own conversion factors seems like a much-needed part of this. -- Herb