Re: [Orgmode] Problem searching CLOSED and DEADLINE properties

[Bart Parliman]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Bart Parliman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Bart Parliman wrote:
> > >
> > > > When the example file below is added to the agenda file list, and I 
> > > > perform an agenda property search (C-c C-a m), I can't seem to locate any 
> > > > CLOSED items if I use the date matching format, for example these don't 
> > > > work...
> > > > CLOSED>="<2009-01-01>"
> > >
> > > This one works fine for me.
> > >
> > > > CLOSED="<2009-01-07>"
> > >
> > > This one does not, because the CLOSED time stamp
> > > in the example also contains a time, while you comparison value is taken 
> > > to be at midnight.
> > >
> > > > ... but a regexp search like this...
> > > > CLOSED={2009}
> > > > ... works fine.  For DEADLINE, an exact date matches fails...
> > > > DEADLINE="<2009-01-28>"
> > >
> > > For me it works fine.
> > >
> > > - Carsten
> > >
> > > > ... but an inequality match succeeds...
> > > > DEADLINE>="<2009-01-28>"
> > > > FWIW I'm using version 6.17b.  Am I just using this format incorrectly?
> >
> > My apologies.  I recently installed 6.17b, but to the wrong lisp target 
> > directory (i.e. so I was effectively using an older version of the code, 
> > 6.12b I think).  After installing it in the proper directory this works 
> > fine.
>
> :-)  Yes, many problems come from running one version and reading the manual 
> of another version :-)
>
> I am glad it works.  Even though, looking at your post, I am wondering if it 
> would be useful
> to limit the comparison to "date-only" if the comparison value is a date 
> without a time.......
>
> - Carsten

That's probably a good idea to avoid confusion, though I'm not 
sure how often one searches for a specific day with these.  For 
closed items I tend to use a timeline display, but was looking at 
using a range of dates instead when I noticed the problem.  The 
only reason I tried a single date was to produce another data 
point after I noticed that the '>=' seemed to fail.

Bart