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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Easy entry of date ranges
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:22:24 -0400
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To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Hi Eric, Eric, Rasmus, and Nicolas,

On 2015-08-27 at 05:36, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 11:46, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Org and the calendar make it fairly easy to enter time ranges, by
>>>>> typing "--" and then the end time or "+" and then the duration. I'd
>>>>> like to do something similar for dates, but it doesn't seem to be
>>>>> supported. Is there an easy way to enter a date range for a scheduled
>>>>> task?
>
> [...]
>
>> For a vacation, a plain timestamp is more appropriate. However! That
>> just begs the question of how to make it easier to enter a date range.
>> That's a question I don't know the answer to -- I suspect there isn't
>> any way but just hitting a couple of hyphens and then "C-c ." again. I
>> suppose Org could help by setting the default date of the end time to
>> something after the start time.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Actually, org is quite smart in this respect.  if you enter a time stamp
> and then ask to enter another, org automatically inserts the -- between
> the two time stamps.  E.g. try this key sequence to get a time range
> that covers 7 days starting today:
>
>   C-c . RET C-c . +6 RET
>
> and you should get: <2015-08-27 Thu>--<2015-09-02 Wed>


Thank you all for the reminder of SCHEDULED, DEADLINE, normal and inactive timestamp use cases, and the information about easy-entry of inactive ranges. Workflow much improved!

  -k.