Re: [Ann] Tool to hack time

[Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>]

Hi Stig,

Thanks for your feedback!

>> https://gitlab.com/marcowahl/hack-time is a little tool to forge the
>>[...]
>> Comments welcome, as always.
>
> I gave it a quick spin. The first thing that struck me was sadness at
> not finding an elpa package :-(

You are right, I think.  I'll propose the hack-time code soon as elpa
package.  Possibly in the form of a minor mode.  You are invited to
contribute to the realization as package.

> Anyway, I obtained it from its repo and I positioned calendar on 7th of
> February, and invoked it on an entry I forgot to mark as done yesterday.
> This is the result:
>
> ,----
> | ** TODO Practice guitar
> |    SCHEDULED: <2017-02-08 Wed ++1d/3d>
> |    :PROPERTIES:
> |    :STYLE:    habit
> |    :LAST_REPEAT: [2017-02-08 Tue 12:01]
> |    :END:
> |    :LOGBOOK:
> |    - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2017-02-07 Tue 11:55] \\
> `----
>
> Note that:
>
> - new scheduled time is correct
> - logbook entry is correct
> - LAST_REPEAT property is *incorrect*; I expect this too to be
>   [2017-02-07 Tue 11:55]

Yes.  I also noticed the issue with LAST_REPEAT.  I should have told in
the announcement that 'hack-time' depends on the Org 'master' branch
since about two weeks to handle LAST_REPEAT reliably.

Unfortunately 'hack-time' in its current form is not strong enough to
hack ANY time in Emacs.  Up to now 'hack-time' only applies to elisp
code when it calls 'current-time'.


Best regards,

                       Marco