Re: [BUG] Incorrect time calculation in agenda clockcheck

[Ihor Radchenko]

Raffael Stocker <r.stocker@mnet-mail.de> writes:

> in the Org Agenda clockcheck view, a warning about missing end time of a
> clocked-in task is displayed together with the already elapsed time of
> that task.  If the starting time is in the future (this can happen if
> rounding and continuous clocking are used), the elapsed time is
> incorrect.  For example, if a clocked-in task starts in 5 minutes,
> clockcheck will report something like "No end time: (0:55)".  It would
> be more sensible to say "No end time: (-0:05)" or even "No end time: (in
> 0:05)".

Thanks for reporting!
Fixed, on main.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=ee58259bc

> The culprit is the use of ‘org-duration-from-minutes’ in
> ‘org-agenda-show-clocking-issues’, because org-duration always assumes
> positive durations and is given a negative one here.  The problem can
> easily be corrected with something like the following:
>...
> However, I believe it would be more useful (and general) to use a
> similar trick to teach org-duration to work with negative durations.

That's what I ended up doing.

> ... It would be more sensible to ... or even "No end time: (in 0:05)".

I find this confusing, so I left -0:05.

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