[PATCH] incorrect timestamps with :time-prompt and datetrees

[Richard Lawrence]

Hi everyone,

Bumping this, since I forgot to put "PATCH" in the subject line before.

Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Here is a patch for this issue. It uses a narrower regex to match a time
> range. This regex requires time ranges to have ":MM" or an AM/PM
> specification in the end time, to prevent mangling strings that are
> interpreted as dates, like "11-12".
>
> This patch is a minimal change that gets the code working in the way
> that seems to have been intended, so it seems worth applying to maint.
>
> However, the way the code is intended to work doesn't seem right to me,
> because it simply throws away time range information at the time prompt.
> If you enter a time range like "13:00-14:00" at the time prompt, you
> will get a timestamp with "13:00" for the time when the %T template is
> expanded. (This is because org-capture-set-target-location uses the
> beginning of the entered time range to set :default-time, which must be
> an encoded time value, and there is no obvious way to set a time range.)
> This is a surprising contrast with the behavior of %^T, which preserves
> the time range information in the timestamp entered. But fixing this
> will be a larger change and possibly requires some discussion.

-- 
Best,
Richard

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