Questions tagged [time-date]
is for time of day, handling date and time formats, interfacing with the operating system for date and time values, converting time zones, and calculating date and time arithmetic.
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Is there a mode to automatically update copyright years in files?
Usually around this time of year people start to realize that their copyright year is out of date in their files. This is particularly annoying if you like to put the copyright in every source file. I ...
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Specify timezone in Org date format
When I write something like this: <2015-07-05 Sun 20:00 GMT+0>, and then try to edit it by pressing C-c ., Org removes the GMT+0 part. So, I think it's in a wrong format.
Note: I don't want to ...
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Parsing formatted time string (inverse of format-time-string)
The format-time-string function takes a time argument like '(21761 64499 350937 0) and a format string like "%y-%m-%d %a %H:%M" and returns something like "15-03-12 Thu 16:49".
What is the inverse ...
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in org-mode, how to insert timestamp with today's date?
In a Lisp function, how do I instruct org to automatically insert a timestamp with today's date?
I found the function org-insert-time-stamp, but I don't know how to provide an argument for it that ...
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Counting the number of days that have passed since a certain date
I have an org-mode document in which I wish to keep track of the number of days that have passed since a certain date. Is there a built in function for this, or will I be forced to write a custom ...
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How can I change Org-mode time format for one buffer?
In general all timestamps in Org-mode appears as [YYYY-MM-DD Day]. I have one file (buffer) where I would like the format to be different. Either just [YYYY-MM-DD] or [YYYY-MM]. How do I tell Org-mode ...
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Elisp function to see a date for next Wednesday
Admitting up front that I am not capable of much Lisp, I have found ways to produce the current date or a number of seconds from a date, but I am looking for a simple equivalent to shell command like ...
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Multiple Scheduled Timestamps for One Task
Suppose I want to be reminded to water my plants on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, AND on any of the following days, if for some reason I miss the scheduled days.
I originally tried the following:
**...
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Increment days / months / dates, etc. within buffer
In a text document, while editing, I often need to increment/ decrement calendar data. So, Friday will need to become Monday, December will need to become March, etc.
Or 28 Apr after adding 5 will ...
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How to insert inactive [timestamp] via function?
C-u C-c ! generates a time stamp like [2015-05-04 Mon 17:13]
I would like to assign a shortcut (e.g F1) to this action.
So far I have:
(defun my/timenow (&optional arg)
(interactive)
(let (...
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Insert an arbitrary timestamp
C-c . could insert the timestamp of the current date and C-u C-c . insert the current datetime.
I find it very difficult to insert an arbitrary datetime.
Operations over Calendar are invalid since ...
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Show time in different time zones
I take a lot of different MOOC and each class declare own deadline relative to some time zone.
Are there any Emacs mode that show date/time in buffer for several selected time zones in same time?
I ...
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Change date from active to inactive
I want to change an active date <2017-12-10 17:04> to inactive date [2017-12-10 17:04] and vice versa.
How do I do that?
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Converting plain text to dates
Is it possible to convert plain text dates to Org dates automatically? I have entries in the format:
16 February 2015
which I would like to convert to Org dates: <2015-02-16 Mon>
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Convert Unix time to Org-mode timestamp
How can I convert a Unix time to an Org-mode local timestamp?
For example (convert 1523473110) should return <2018-04-11 Wed 15:58:30>.
I found org-timestamp--to-internal-time, but that uses "...
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How to display time in seconds in the mode line?
By default display-time-mode shows the time only in minutes. How I can display time in seconds? Something like 18:34:45".
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Get time in AM/PM format
(format-time-string "%p") is empty in my Emacs. How I can format date in AM/PM format?
That answer second part of Show time in different time zones
UPDATE
(length (format-time-string "%p")) ; is 0
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Display months/days or timestamps in another language than English
Setup:
GUI version GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-07-25 on KAEL compiled from EmacsW64.
Windows 7 x64 Dutch version.
Situation:
When I'm evaluating the following snippet:
(...
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Easily update dates for a recurrent set of TODOs in org mode
Every semester I teach the same course and for every semester there are several TODOs that should, at least initially, have the same dates relative to the starting date (i.e. the first day of class). ...
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The time of the last change of the current buffer
Can Emacs determine the time of the last change (or the last edit) done to the current buffer?
The buffer may has been saved or not.
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Apply different function to each element in list?
I have a time-stamp of a video formatted as "00:00:00,000" such that "%H:%M:%s,%3N".
I am want to eventually use this timestamp as part of an in-interval-p function where I take two timestamps and a ...
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Check whether a string is a date in a specific format, e.g. “%Y-%m-%d”
I have a string and would like to check whether it contains a date in a given date format, e.g. "%Y-%m-%d", with format as for format-time-string. This is for a package and users can configure the ...
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org column view with date calculations
* TODO fix this bug asap
:PROPERTIES:
:UPDATE: writing test cases almost there!
:LASTUPDATED: 2019-11-25
:DEADLINE: 2019-11-30
:END:
* TODO update that documentation
:PROPERTIES:
:UPDATE: updating my ...
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Convert between ISO week and a normal date
How can you convert between ISO year-week-day and an elisp date that can be sent to, e.g., format-time-string? I do not want to go via a string representation.
I found the following old question on ...
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Show sum of efforts for a day in Org-Agenda day title
I would like to show sum of efforts for all tasks for a day in Org-Agenda day title. E.g. for a week agenda there would be 7 sums for each of the day, in their respective titles.
I think this could ...
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Column of programmatically updated dates in org-mode
I'm trying to make a table in org-mode, the first column of which should be the Monday of each week starting with a date I specify. So, for example, if I specify Dec 14th, I would get a column with ...
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Compare file modification time stamps
Background
I am using Emacsclient to open files in a Emacs server. The server configuration depends on the content of a JSON configuration file. A Perl script can read the config file and write a ...
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How do I interconvert Calc's HMS forms and seconds?
Is there a built-in way to convert/toggle between GNU Emacs Calc's HMS forms and seconds? I'd also like to easily be able to add numbers as seconds and/or minutes to an existing HMS form.
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How to set schedule and deadline for entires being inserted via org-capture template file?
I'm trying to leverage the power of org capture templates. There are a few tasks I know I will be scheduling on particular dates of the month.
Setting their schedule and deadline in the capture ...
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How to get the (localized) day of the week lowercased in time-stamp-format?
The %:a allows to get the full weekday in the Time-stamp. My system-time-locale is fr_FR.UTF-8. I am using the Time-stamp in a Markdown file, inside a pandoc title block, which I export to html, so I ...
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Inserting timestamp in mini buffer in Emacs
I keep on saving various org files in their respective folders using Filename as YYYY-MM-DD.org files . So I ended up typing C-x C-w 2020-10-06.org at least thirty times today. Can this process be ...
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Table formula for dates delta
Here my org table:
| | Start date | End date | State | Duration |
|---+------------------------+------------------------+-------+----------|
| # | <2019-01-02 Wed 10:...
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Is it possible to change and freeze the current date-time in Emacs?
I'm a heavy Emacs Org-mode user and VERY dependent on the date functionality. I frequently enter events, receipts, etc. using capture templates after they've already occurred. My current solution is ...
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Yasnippet invoked org-time-stamp function inserts double timestamp
I created a yasnippet template to quickly timestamp a note I'd like to make in org-mode. The body of the yasnippet file reads
$0
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: `(org-insert-time-stamp nil t t)`
:END:
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How to add a time and a time interval in calc-mode?
How do I use calc to add a time interval to a moment in time (i.e., a date, or a time)?
For instance, say I want to know what the time and day will be 8,000 minutes into the future?
I know that t N ...
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in yasnippet, how to insert variable date with fixed time of day?
I want a yasnippet to insert an org-mode date and time.
The date should be today's date, but the time should be fixed.
So far my snippet correctly inserts today's date, but not the time:
# -*- ...
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Customising the increments in an org-mode timestamp
When I create an appointment in org-agenda I make use of timestamps. The item is created with today's date and time and I then place my cursor on the date and time respectively and use S-up or S-down ...
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How to retrieve the date under the cursor in emacs calendar as the format day.month.year like 15.07.2018
Is there a way to retrieve the date under the cursor in emacs calendar as the format day.month.year like 05.07.2018 as a clipboard content?
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org-mode timestamp repeater interval manipulation
What are (if any) the lisp functions to read and write the repeater interval part of the org-mode timestamps? (The ones at the end of the timestamp string, which are optional, e.g. +1w or +6d in <...
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Is there a view that can show time entered per day?
Basically I am after a method to find missing times.
Currently I use this code to view times per task.
#+BEGIN: clocktable :link t :maxlevel 10 :block week :scope file
But I can not view if i am ...
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Current time timestamp in org-capture-templates
In org-mode org-capture templates, what is the way to insert current time timestamp?
I've tried %U like so:
(setq
org-capture-templates
(quote
(
("k" "Capture an item and schedule it for ...
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Hide org-table rows outside certain date ranges?
Excel tables lets us show just the rows that have "July 2018" in a specific column, and hide the rest. Or to show "21st August 2017-30th August 2017, and also July 2018, and also all of 2019", and ...
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Query org agenda build time?
Q: how can I get the last time I built the org agenda buffer?
I've set an idle timer to rebuild my org agenda buffer every x minutes. It works fine, but it's inefficient to rebuild if the agenda ...
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meta-data related to the current buffer
How can I retrieve the date/time of the creation of the current file (file-date-time-of-creation) on my system?
The same question can arise for the size.
A related question was asked here. This is a ...
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Invalid date: 01-Jan-2055
I recently downloaded Emacs 24.4 and sometimes I see an "invalid date" error in my buffer.
When I am in eww, often I try to click (RET) a link and I get:
error in process sentinel: Invalid date: 01-...
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How remove active date from a dynamic block using columnview
This post explains how you can setup dynamic blocks to create tables based on meeting minutes.
In short, you can extract the TODOs of the minutes and put them in a table of actions like so:
* ...
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Twilight times in addition to sunrise/sunset?
The sunrise-sunset function from solar.el computes sunrise and sunset. I would also like to have a function that computes the end/beginning of
civil twilight (center of sun 6 deg below horizon)
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Org-mode adding statistic cookie to date-tree lines in capture
In this video(timestamped to relevant section), I see this guy's org file in a date-tree with the [/] statistic cookie next to each YYYY-MM-DD headline.
https://youtu.be/-2RXhPV_zgc?t=12m51s
I'd ...
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Can Ibuffer show buffers last viewing time?
I was wondering if it is possible to have a column in Ibuffer that shows the last viewing time.
In the default view I can see these columns:
MR Name Size Mode Filename/...
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How can I convert a list of integers to a string?
Let's say I have a list of integers, representing year, month, day for a date:
(2017 8 21)
and I want to format the list in one function call, as in
(format "%04d-%02d-%02d" 2017 8 21)
Is there an ...
