On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I get that, what I am not clear about is where you encounter this issue > when using org .eg. is it when entering now as a date for generating an > agenda of past or current scheduled items etc or is this a problem with > some custom functions you have written where you need to enter 'now' > manually and due to the use of UTC in time comparisons are forced to > adjust manually for UTC or something else? This is what is not > clear. From my own use, I don't see the issue you describe with > scheduled items not appearing or appearing when they shouldn't, so don't > know how to reproduce the issue your having i.e. when I do agenda > searches, I don't see deadline or scheduled items showing up when they > should not etc.
It is when doing any kind of tag search. So org-agenda, mostly. I'm not surprised you cannot reproduce it because it is dependent on your local timezone. > > This matters because if the issue is the former, then we likely do have > a real bug. However, if it is the latter, then it may be a bug or it may > be just an implementation weakness or it could just be a difference of > opinions on how it should be. > > Your examples don't clarify what the issue is. It is obvious that if we > convert times to UTC for calculation purposes that this will affect the > display of those timestamps, but as far as I can tell, org doesn't > convert back and use those converted values in any visible way. Provided > all values are converted consistently, it should not matter. Therefore, > if there is a problem, then something must not be getting converted > correctly, but it is not possible to narrow down where this is without > more info. Ah, perhaps I should make the issue clearer. When I run this at 2017-11-01 20:55:30 (org-2ft "<now>") 1509594900.0 (org-2ft "<2017-11-01 20:55:30>") 1509569700.0 Therefore when org.el does a tag search for SCHEDULED="<now>", it will not match <2017-11-01 20:55:30>, assuming that I have frozen my system clock to that time. > > If you can provide an ECM then we can avoid assumptions and different > interpretations and focus on the issue. Again, this is dependent on your local time zone. Try setting your time zone to America/Los_Angeles. 1. emacs -Q 2. Assume it is 2017-10-10 12:00:00 local time 3. Create an agenda file * TODO thing SCHEDULED:<2017-10-10 13:00:00> 4. M-x org-agenda RET m SCHEDULED>"<now>" Expected: thing shows up Actual: thing does not show up > > Tim > > -- > Tim Cross
