From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
Subject: Re: Calc; Cannot add time units to date
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:41:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-87dgkZ+AZcNqL891zVT5yZyqXgdTnfx7MJ0JwVL18Ezw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87370ryyxh.fsf@gmail.com>
On 23 March 2018 at 04:32, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> writes:
>
>> That's because hour is not a time unit. hr is a time unit:
Ah, thanks, I was unaware of this.
>> 1.5 hr + 0.5 hr = 2. hr
>> 1.5 hr + 30 min = 2. hr
>>
>> (You need to press u s to simplify the units for the second example,
>> but this does nothing for the date arithmetic that is the subject of
>> this bug report.)
>
> The way I read it, hr and min are units, and 't N' produces a
> date. The documented way to add a time to a date is with '1h', which
> works fine.
Right, but it would be reasonable to unify the time units with dates.
If someone is looking for an elisp task...
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-22 8:36 Calc; Cannot add time units to date Allen Li
2018-03-22 9:36 ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-22 17:38 ` Allen Li
2018-03-22 20:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-22 20:47 ` Allen Li
2018-03-23 8:32 ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-23 8:41 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
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