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From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: Where to put dates on meeting headlines
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:21:36 -0800
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To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, John Kitchin wrote:

> Suppose I use a heading to store notes on a meeting.
>
> Is there a canonical location to put a date so I could search for them
> later?
>
> It seems like the date is not a deadline, or scheduled timestamp.  I
> could see putting the date in the headline, but then I do not see an
> obvious way to search for meetings that occurred in a time range.
> Putting the date in the body is another location, but then I do not know
> how it might be searched again.
>
> Another option is a property, which might be searchable at least with a
> function.
>
> What do you do along these lines?
>
> Here is a simple example of a headline I might have, and later I might
> want a report of all meetings in the month of February.
>
> * Group meeting <2017-02-24 Fri> :meeting:
>

That is a timestamp, albeit one with `:hour-start nil :minute-start nil'.

Isn't this good enough to search with?

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
   (org-element-map
       (org-element-parse-buffer) 'timestamp
     (lambda(x)
       (let
 	  ((beg (org-element-property :begin x))
 	   (month (org-element-property :month-start x))
 	   (year (org-element-property :year-start x)))
 	(format "Year %s Month %s Where %s" year month beg))))
#+END_SRC


#+RESULTS:
| Year 2017 Month 2 Where 18 |

HTH,

Chuck