Re: [Orgmode] scheduled item taking time from inactive time stamp

[Carsten Dominik]

On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Matthew Lundin writes:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Eric S Fraga <address@hidden>, Eric S Fraga <address@hidden>
> > writes:
> >
> > > Would something like
> > >
> > >  * TODO $U %?
> > >
> > > still work (or with %t instead of %U obviously)?
> >
> > I just tried this and it worked for me (i.e., showed up in the  
> > agenda).
> > But I'm sure there are finer points that I'm missing.
> >
> > Best,
> > Matt
>
> And I have also tried it.  And that fixes the problem (which I hadn't
> yet noticed) of an improperly formatted TODO entry.
>
> However, my original question still stands: does it really make sense
> for org-mode's agenda view to take the "time" for an activity that has
> been scheduled for that day from an inactive time stamp when the
> active one in the SCHEDULE entry has no time element?


The reason for this behavior is that I wanted to support things like

* TODO Meeting at 2pm
  <2009-01-01 Thu>

i.e. loose time information that may be in the header.

The regular expression looking for a time also matches the
time you had in the time stamp.

> I can use %u to not have the time in the inactive time stamp but
> that's simply avoiding the issue... something I am happy to do if need
> be but would rather like to avoid!  :-)

I think the right approach is to not put the time stamp into the
header line at all.  Why would you want the *creation* time in such
an exposed place????

- Carsten