Re: [O] [bug?] Computations on efforts expressed in days

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Bastien,

Bastien wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>
>> I want to compute efforts given in days. As explained by the doc of
>> `org-effort-durations', we must add a =d= modifier to tell Org that given
>> numbers must be multiplied by 480 (in the case of hours) to get the correct
>> number of corresponding minutes.
>>
>> I did that, but (as shown in the following inlined ECM):
>>
>> - the computed total for task A is interpreted as hours (4.5 days becomes 4
>>   hours 30 minutes).
>>
>> - the grand computed total for all tasks becomes completely wrong (4:38
>>   instead of 4.5 + 0.125 = 4.625 days).
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong, or forgetting something?
>
> This should be fixed now.

With your patch, the dynamic bloc now becomes:

#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "75dd37bf-a15a-4910-89f8-25d481f3e523" 
:maxlevel 3
| Task        | Estim. |
|-------------+--------|
| * Tasks     |  37:00 |
| ** TODO A   |  36:00 |
| *** TODO A1 |   1.5d |
| *** TODO A2 |     3d |
| ** TODO B   | 0.125d |
#+END:

All the computations are right now -- thanks a lot.

However, the table is difficult to read, mixing hours and days (in this case).
Shouldn't we be able to give a parameter to the columnview to say in which
format we expect the times, and then get *all* values converted to either
hours or days (still, in this case)?

If that existed, should it be done for Effort only, or extrapolated to all (?)
properties?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban