From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diary-mail-entries Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:33:51 +0200 Message-ID: <878qxtff8w.fsf@web.de> References: <87sew1ph9f.fsf@eddie.fios-router.home> Reply-To: Michael Heerdegen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14395"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LMUgIlhrjJjoSNmCuhpN3zwg3Jo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 22 20:34:00 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sVxrD-0003ZP-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:33:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVxqZ-00022K-7W; Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVxqU-000218-SG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sVxqT-0001gT-Dn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sVxqP-0002d4-UH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:33:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147301 Archived-At: Arthur Alinovi writes: > (setq midnight-period 39600) ;; (eq (* 11 60 60) "12 hours") I don't think you want to set this variable: AFAIU this is the length of a day - with other words, the delay between two timer invocations. > (midnight-delay-set 'midnight-delay 1800) Calling a setter function of an option will not necessarily set the variable. You want (setopt midnight-delay ...) > (add-hook 'midnight-hook 'diary-mail-entries) > My thinking is that this sets "midnight" for 11:00am and runs the > midnight-hook diary-mail-entries 30 minutes later. This would be (* 11 60 60) for "...". Michael.