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Re: [O] bug#9695: allowed date range
From: |
Carsten Dominik |
Subject: |
Re: [O] bug#9695: allowed date range |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:02:10 +0200 |
On 13.10.2011, at 09:57, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>>> Oh, now I see what's wrong. All time stamps consist of the date and
>>> then the day's name abbreviation, which is missing with your example.
>>> Correct would be
>>>
>>> <2011-10-17 Mon>--<2011-10-30 Sun>
>>
>> Although the day is optional according to the regexp. I would
>> definitely like to have the regexp with the space optional as well as
>> there are cases where I want to type the date in directly (not in org
>> mode for whatever reason). In those cases, it is easy to type
>> 2011-01-01 or whatever but it's not necessarily trivial to determine
>> the day of the week...
>
> Yes, I agree, although you can use org-time-stamp everywhere (in emacs).
> And you can actually insert timestamps simply by writing
>
> <2011-10-13 >
>
> with the whitespace to make it a valid timestamp. That will be shown as
> day entry in the agenda, and you might have typed it in using some
> non-emacs text editor on you phone.
>
> Now, back in org-mode, simply S-<up> and S-<down> on any number, and et
> voila, the missing day name abbrev is added automatically.
>
>> Actually, interesting thought experiment: does org actually do any
>> consistency checks, comparing the date and the day of the week?
>
> No, I don't think so. Manipulating and creating timestamps using the
> provided commands ensures their correctness, but for actual calculation
> the day names are ignored. It's just for humans.
Just to confirm, this is correct.
- Carsten