From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Appointments listed 1 minute late
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:28:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-36B665.13280415042015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33715d5a-ac63-4be5-9266-cf45a0909771@googlegroups.com
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In article <33715d5a-ac63-4be5-9266-cf45a0909771@googlegroups.com>,
Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 8:48:42 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Graham wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 5:14:26 AM UTC-7, Martin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > (I truly apologize for the noise but I just CANNOT resist)
> > >
> > > There are only 2 hard things :)
> > >
> > > * Caching
> > > * Naming
> > > * Off by one errors
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:51 PM Steve Graham <xxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I noticed in Org Agenda that the appointments
> > > > on the bottom Emacs bar (Sorry, idk the
> > > > proper term) are 1 minute late. So if the
> > > > appointment is for 10:18 and now is 10:18 it
> > > > says the app't is due in 1 minute. If the
> > > > time is 10:19 it says the app't is now.
> > > >
> > > > I've also noticed similar behavior in todochiku.
> > > >
> > > > Is Emacs reporting the wrong time?
> > > >
> > > > Comments?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > TIA, Steve
> > > >
> >
> > Martin,
> >
> > Thought about the 3rd one, not about the first one. What do you mean by
> > #2?
>
> Its a famous pair¹ of quotes in our trade
> http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
> ------------------
> ¹ Or is it triad?
"naming" presumably refers to the fact that computer programmers can't
agree on naming conventions -- some like camelCaseNames, some like
names_with_underscores, some like
nHungarianNotation/n_hungarian_notation.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2015-04-14 17:47 Appointments listed 1 minute late Steve Graham
2015-04-15 10:24 ` Martin
[not found] ` <mailman.732.1429100064.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-15 15:18 ` Steve Graham
2015-04-15 16:22 ` Rusi
2015-04-15 17:28 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
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