Re: [O] Bug: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline

[Nick Dokos]

Mark S <address@hidden> wrote:

> I posted this before as a question, but since it has been confirmed by
> others, and shows up under Linux and Windows, I'll now post the
> details as a bug.
> 
> The Timeline view *would* be very useful for scheduling months in
> advance, reviewing history, or printing a year event
> calendar. Unfortunately, it appears that it can't really be trusted.
> The basic problem is that in AGENDA TIMELINE view ("C-a L") recurring
> items are frequently and unpredictably dropped from the view. The
> regular AGENDA view works fine AFAIK -- its the TIMELINE that is at
> issue.

AFAICT, the culprit is org-get-all-dates: it matches date strings, translates
to number of days since the (imaginary) date 0001-12-31bce,
accumulates them in a list, sorts them, takes care of gaps - but
completely ignores any repeaters: iow, the "don't always show" in the
Subject line should more accurately say "never show".

Nick