Diary time intervals format

Diary time intervals format

[Bastien]

Hi,

i'd like to store an appointment and its *duration*; i expected diary
would understand something like:

  Nov 30, 2006, 14:30--20:00 RDV Beaubourg

.. so that org-mode could use this properly in the agenda display.
I couldn't find any relevant information in the Emacs manual or in
emacswiki on how to store time intervals within appointments.

Any hint?

-- 
Bastien

Re: Diary time intervals format

[J. David Boyd]

Bastien <bzgNOSPAM@altern.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> i'd like to store an appointment and its *duration*; i expected diary
> would understand something like:
>
>   Nov 30, 2006, 14:30--20:00 RDV Beaubourg
>
> .. so that org-mode could use this properly in the agenda display.
> I couldn't find any relevant information in the Emacs manual or in
> emacswiki on how to store time intervals within appointments.
>
> Any hint?
>
> -- 
> Bastien


I just saw a response in the org list where some one said that this worked
fine.  Now, they did have only one dash between the times, and a space on both
sides.  Let me try it and see what I get...



Hmm, it seems to work okay.  I went into my .diary file, and added a duration
of xx:yy - yy:zz, and it showed up in my org mode agenda fine.

Re: Diary time intervals format

[Bastien]

david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> Hmm, it seems to work okay.  I went into my .diary file, and added a
> duration of xx:yy - yy:zz, and it showed up in my org mode agenda
> fine.

I found the anwser and tried this as well, but i'm not really
satisfied with the output.

  Dec 5, 2006, 16:00 - 20:00 Formes symboliques

is converted as:

  Diary:      16:00...... - 20:00 Formes symboliques

when i expected:

  Diary:      16:00...... Formes symboliques
  Diary:      17:00...... Formes symboliques
  Diary:      18:00...... Formes symboliques
  Diary:      19:00...... 

or maybe: 

  Diary:      16:00...... Formes symboliques
  Diary:      17:00...... ------------------
  Diary:      18:00...... ------------------
  Diary:      19:00...... 

But i think it's not an org-mode issue, it's rather a diary issue. 

I couldn't find any syntactic rule for keeping track of appointments
duration, a feature that is obviously required by both planner-muse
and org-mode.

But maybe my fancy diary config is a bit messy, or i'm missing
something... what your agenda output looks like ?

Cheers,

-- 
Bastien

Re: Diary time intervals format

[carsten.dominik]

Bastien wrote:
> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
> > Hmm, it seems to work okay.  I went into my .diary file, and added a
> > duration of xx:yy - yy:zz, and it showed up in my org mode agenda
> > fine.
>
> I found the anwser and tried this as well, but i'm not really
> satisfied with the output.
>
>   Dec 5, 2006, 16:00 - 20:00 Formes symboliques

Org-mode expects "16:00-20:00" instead of "16:00 - 20:00", i.e.
no spaces around the dash.  I guess I could relax these rules a bit,
like allowing the spaces, and also allowing two dashes.  Will
look into it.

- Carsten

>
> is converted as:
>
>   Diary:      16:00...... - 20:00 Formes symboliques
>
> when i expected:
>
>   Diary:      16:00...... Formes symboliques
>   Diary:      17:00...... Formes symboliques
>   Diary:      18:00...... Formes symboliques
>   Diary:      19:00......
>
> or maybe:
>
>   Diary:      16:00...... Formes symboliques
>   Diary:      17:00...... ------------------
>   Diary:      18:00...... ------------------
>   Diary:      19:00......
>
> But i think it's not an org-mode issue, it's rather a diary issue.
>
> I couldn't find any syntactic rule for keeping track of appointments
> duration, a feature that is obviously required by both planner-muse
> and org-mode.
>
> But maybe my fancy diary config is a bit messy, or i'm missing
> something... what your agenda output looks like ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Bastien