filenametimestamps for YYYY-MM-DD_blah files

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What did I do on February 14th 2007? Visualize your (digital) life in Org-mode

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filenametimestamps for YYYY-MM-DD_blah files #6

Closed ajft closed 11 years ago

ajft commented 11 years ago

I've just started using memacs in a limited capacity, I have a large number of log files generated from other sources whose names are of the form YYYY-MM-DD_hostname.log eg "2013-03-08_zurich_data.log"

I would expect (and prefer) that an org-mode entry for them would be:

<2013-03-08 Fri> 2013-03-08_zurich_data.log instead I get entries of the form:
<2013-03-08 Fri 09:00:01> 2013-03-08_zurich_data.log

Adrian

ajft commented 11 years ago

Addendum, some scanning through the org_archive file that was generated and I've found cases where what I think are similarly named files result in different format org entries:

** <2012-12-05 Wed> 2012-12-05-bashhistory_fafnir :PROPERTIES: :ID: af77fd3c467e3050ddd0c29e3353209cdeabe4b2 :END:

** <2012-12-06 Thu 11:32:47> 2012-12-06-bashhistory_warsaw :PROPERTIES: :ID: 37b0a94ced56ecf6a036bd9173646804a7aa92a5

:END:

awieser commented 11 years ago

You just found the undocumented feature that time information is extracted from the file itself.

I have just added a new argument "--skip-file-time-extraction" to avoid that.

regards Armin

novoid commented 11 years ago

To be completely specific and as an addendum to the comment of awieser:

The module looks for the timestamp of the corresponding file (mtime). If its day matches the datestamp of the file name, the time (of mtime) is used for generating the full time stamp in the resulting Org-mode file. If the days do not match, the resuling Org-mode file contains only a date stamp (not a time stamp).

So:

matching mtime and date stamp of file name -> full time stamp in Org
days not matching (mtime and date stamp of file name) -> date stamp in Org

As awieser wrote: you can now disable this using the --skip-file-time-extraction parameter.

HTH

ajft commented 11 years ago

Thanks guys, just what I was after (and the explanation was as I expected). One step closer to org-mode taking over the universe...