Re: [BUG] Error in data input and output format for org-columns--summary-estimate

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

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"andrea@fedeli.eu" <andrea@fedeli.eu> writes:

>     I do apologize, I noticed only now the patch content: the output
>     format of duration-from-minutes Is controlled by the
>     org-duration-format variable, so if the user wants results in
>     months (s)he can easily get It that way.

`org-duration-format' is controlling many other aspects of formatting.
Customizing, for example, agenda should probably not affect column views.
 
>     About possibile abuses, org documentation, to date, clearly tells
>     org estimate utilizes times.

May you please elaborate?
 
>     Similarly, I'd not spend too much code to check the format; i
>     understand the intent to preserve backward compatibility, bit if
>     that format adaptation mistake slipped forward to these days I
>     doubt that nice feature was used much so far...

Yes, but it is easy to have a fallback, so why not.

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