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Re: [Orgmode] Problem searching CLOSED and DEADLINE properties


From: Bart Parliman
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Problem searching CLOSED and DEADLINE properties
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:00:04 -0700 (MST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23)



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




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