From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Appointments listed 1 minute late Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:28:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <9a867d62-ee8c-434c-9ef0-51fbd881f8fe@googlegroups.com> <33715d5a-ac63-4be5-9266-cf45a0909771@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429119020 14858 80.91.229.3 (15 Apr 2015 17:30:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:30:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 15 19:30:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YiR8k-0006Rc-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiR8j-00022V-EU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder1.xsusenet.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="30508"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18lVEVHnW8g+FDD6aIKLG8n" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D8YmvhdvIorjyBLl3Z7t3X3JhPU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211463 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103745 Archived-At: In article <33715d5a-ac63-4be5-9266-cf45a0909771@googlegroups.com>, Rusi 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 > > > 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***