Re: [O] [bug] org-agenda-write does not handle date stamps without day of week

[Simon Thum]

Hi Karl,

why don't you add something like an "xx" day which will probably please 
org-mode - in my tests org ignored the weekday. I concluded it's there 
for viewing convenience, and editing (C-.) always got me the right DOW.

I don't use org2ical, however.

Cheers,

Simon


On 03/05/2012 03:44 PM, Karl Voit wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I verified the behavior below with the most current git version of
> Org-mode.
>
> Whenever I call my function to export the current agenda, it
> «converts» events that do have a beginning and end time to events
> that span the whole day (without begin and end times at all).
>
> ,----[ my LISP command to export ]
> | (defun vk-export-agenda()
> |   "Exports monthly Org-mode agenda to agenda.ics file"
> |   (interactive)
> |   (org-agenda-list nil nil 60)
> |   (org-agenda-write "~/org/agenda.ics")
> | )
> `----
>
> I traced down the problem to this:
>
> *<2012-03-05 Mon 08:00-09:00>  works fine
> *<2012-03-05 Mon 8:00-9:00>  works fine too
>
> *<2012-03-05 08:00-09:00>  Wrong: ends up as full day event
>
> Unfortunately, I do have certain mechanisms that generate parts of
> my Org-mode files where I skip the day of the week. Org-mode in
> general is able to handle date stamps without day of week pretty
> well. But whenever I export it to ics (in order to send it to
> Google), I end up with a messed up online agenda.
>
> I guess that org-agenda-write is the one to blame. It would be very
> handy to me if somebody could fix that issue.
>
> Let me know, if you need any further information!
>
> Thank you very much!