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Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps
From: |
Nicolas Goaziou |
Subject: |
Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:09:06 +0100 |
Hello,
Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2016-03-18, at 17:51, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'm now reading org-read-date-analyze to be able to enable US military
>> format for hours (e.g., 2100 instead of 21:00). This is potentially
>> very useful (at least for me), since I'll be able to enter the hour with
>> one hand (colon is on shift-semicolon on my keyboard). Another idea
>> would be to enable 21.00 (this notation is sometimes used in Poland).
>> Would there be demand for such a feature?
>
> Hi all,
>
> and thanks Eric and Sam for positive feedback.
I agree that US military format can be interesting. However, I think
21.00 could conflict with European format for dates.
> One thing that would tremendously help is tests. I think these
> functions are rather fragile, in the sense that it's very easy to break
> something (`parse-time-string' is a total mess, for example - it is
> "clever", yes, but proving that it actually works seems next to
> impossible), so without an extensive test suite I wouldn't touch these
> functions. Does anyone have - or can make - a set of valid (in
> `org-read-date' sense) strings to make tests first and then modify these
> functions? (I could make it myself, but I might forget about some cases -
> and there are a lot of them! And it's even nontrivial to test the
> coverage, since large part of the `parse-time-string' /logic/ is hidden
> in the /variable/ `parse-time-rules', which btw has a 1-line
> docstring...)
I cannot speak for `parse-time-string', but `org-read-date' already has
some tests in `test-org/org-read-date'. You can add more if you want to.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
- [O] A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze', Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/17
- Re: [O] A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze', Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/17
- Re: [O] A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze', Nicolas Goaziou, 2016/03/17
- Re: [O] A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze', Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/18
- Re: [O] A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze', Nicolas Goaziou, 2016/03/18
- [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps (was: A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze'), Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/18
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps, Samuel W. Flint, 2016/03/18
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps, Eric S Fraga, 2016/03/18
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps (was: A small fix in `org-read-date-analyze'), Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/22
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps,
Nicolas Goaziou <=
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/24
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps, Robert Horn, 2016/03/24
- Re: [O] A proposed enhancement in entering timestamps, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/24