Re: [O] How to include time when generating timestamp for DEADLINE/SCHEDULE

[Yuri Niyazov]

PS It is clear that you can *both* select the correct date using
calendar, and *then* type in the time while still in the calendar
selector, right?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Yuri Niyazov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Subhan Michael Tindall
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Not really an acceptable answer. Having to use 2 different interface methods 
>> to fill in one time/date stamp value is confusing and cludgy. Plus, if you 
>> type in a full time/date stamp + time, you can still move around in the 
>> calendar, but it doesn't update the selected datestamp in yellow.  Also 
>> confusing.
>
> Cludgy is in the eye of the beholder. I am hugely bothered by various
> inconsistencies in org-mode user interface (see my other posts to this
> list) but this one is very far down on the list. This is why:
>
> When I need to schedule a date, it is sufficiently close to today's
> date that it is usually 2-3 S+ARROWS keystrokes away from today, so
> the calendar with "today" selected as default is great.
>
> So, let's see how a time selector would work:
>
> When you bring up a time selector, it could by default show one of the
> following three options:
>
> 1) The current time
> 2) The last time you selected when you used the time selector
> 3) Some default configurable time like "noon"
>
> When I need to schedule a time for an event, the time that something
> needs to happen is usually not related to any times on that list, so
> using S+ARROWS would be less efficient than typing out the time, which
> is at most four keystrokes if its on the hour. (E.g. "10pm" ). Of
> course, this is only true if you are a touch-typist.