Allow date to be shifted into the future if time is earlier than now
commit0b8457c835fa5ab40f8327578efdd9b3a374705f
authorCarsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:53:16 +0000 (1 12:53 +0200)
committerCarsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:53:16 +0000 (1 12:53 +0200)
tree372768c203024cc459c939dee394255b70b6255e
parent6b0a251eea3a774f2ed5c108d72ea33ee7817cd2
Allow date to be shifted into the future if time is earlier than now

PT writes:

> Currently, I'm using Google Calendar and it's quick add syntax is very
> convenient:
>
> http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36604#text
>
>
> Of course, Org has similar capabilites, but I found one thing which
> google calendar does better: if it's 4pm and I add an event for 8am
> then GCal schedules it for 8am tomorrow.
>
> Org, on the the other hand, schedules it for 8am today even if that
> time is already passed.
>
> I never add past events and I think it's quite atypical. Shouldn't be
> an option similar to org-read-date-prefer-future for times too, so
> that timestamps also prefer the future when no date given?

This is now possible, but it is not the default.  You need to set

(setq org-read-date-prefer-future 'time)
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