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[O] Timestamps for a whole year, or a year and month
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Erik Hetzner |
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[O] Timestamps for a whole year, or a year and month |
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Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:23:32 -0800 |
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Hi,
I am trying to get together a configuration for taking notes for
historical research using org mode. I think org mode could be very
useful for this, with its many ways of presenting, sorting and
searching information in orgmode files.
One thing that has me a bit stuck, though, is timestamps that might
represent a year. For instance, it would be nice to write:
By <1849> the California Gold Rush had ...
I’ve tried:
By <1849-00-00> the California Gold Rush had ...
and this at least registers as a time stamp, but it doesn’t seem to
work (at least running M-x org-timeline on the file doesn’t seem to
find the entry).
I’ve tried ranges too:
By <1849-01-01>--<1849-12-31> the California Gold Rush had ...
And this kind of works, but it’s pretty awkward. I’m also not sure I
want to see that entry for every date in 1849.
Is there any way to represent this in orgmode? I guess what I am
looking for is something that would show up on the first of the year
in a timeline, but would represent the fact that the year is being
treated as whole unit, and not a specific date.
Any ideas are welcome! Thanks.
best, Erik Hetzner
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Erik Hetzner <=