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Thomas Baumann | 15 Mar 2006 09:16

Re: Suggested change to round timestamps.

Useful, maybe, for accounting purposes, in this case, the calculation of
the timespan in between could be extended to compute and insert a
rounded value.

For other purposes I would stay with the exact value (which of course
is still possible in Alex version), well, this is my personal opinion.

Thomas

Carsten Dominik <dominik <at> science.uva.nl> writes:

> Ah, Alex,
>
> yes, thank you for this reminder.  Alex did sent me that patch before.
> I remember that I did like the idea but did not put it in because
> there  are more places in the code that dead with time stamps and that
> would  also have to be modified.  So some work would be needed, right
> now I  don't know how much out of the top of my head.
>
> More people who would find this useful?
>
> - Carsten
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2006, at 0:43, Alex Bochannek wrote:
>
>> When I first started using Org-mode to keep track of events during the
>> day, I found the timestamp function extremely handy. I didn't want to
>> keep time to the minute, but round to, e.g., fifteen minute intervals.
>>

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Philip Rooke | 15 Mar 2006 22:06

Re: Suggested change to round timestamps.

Thomas Baumann <thomas.baumann <at> ch.tum.de> writes:

> Useful, maybe, for accounting purposes, in this case, the calculation of
> the timespan in between could be extended to compute and insert a
> rounded value.

I agree, definitely a useful extension.  I know a number of people who
log/record time to larger units than 1 minute (6 minutes seems to be
common).

> For other purposes I would stay with the exact value (which of course 
> is still possible in Alex version)

Likewise, I would stay with the exact value but still like the idea of
being able to do something different.

Regards,

Phil

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Alex Bochannek | 15 Mar 2006 22:34

Re: Suggested change to round timestamps.

Philip Rooke <phil <at> yax.org.uk> writes:

> Thomas Baumann <thomas.baumann <at> ch.tum.de> writes:
>
>> Useful, maybe, for accounting purposes, in this case, the calculation of
>> the timespan in between could be extended to compute and insert a
>> rounded value.
>
> I agree, definitely a useful extension.  I know a number of people who
> log/record time to larger units than 1 minute (6 minutes seems to be
> common).

It seems like people get used to that when they work in environments
that requires them to submit time cards. Personally, I just find it
annoying to look at the agenda view and see a meeting I attended
listed as 13:02-14:07 

>> For other purposes I would stay with the exact value (which of course 
>> is still possible in Alex version)
>
> Likewise, I would stay with the exact value but still like the idea of
> being able to do something different.

I tried to change it in a way that would not affect the existing
functionality. I also looked at all the calls to current-time (in the
4.01 version I started with) and only modified the ones that were
relevant. I did not look at 4.09/4.10 yet.

Alex.

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