Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Amin Bandali writes: > >>> Anyway, if this were to be implemented, in what format would the >>> timeout be queried for? Perhaps hours? >> >> Irssi seems to use seconds [0]. But I think minutes would be a nice >> compromise between seconds and hours. Though, ideally, we'd be able to >> parse relative time strings like "+1h", "+3d", "+2w", and so on. >> >> [0]: >> >> Do you know if Emacs has functions for parsing such time formats outside >> Org? This seems like one of many situations they would come in handy. > > Yeah, that would be handy... I think. Or perhaps not -- asking people > to learn a new "language" to just set a timeout is perhaps not ideal... > Would it really be that big of a burden? I'd imagine 10m, 2h, ... to be familiar/intuitive enough for most users, especially those with an Org background. Further, to alleviate this, we would set a default unit for when none is provided (e.g. take 10 to mean 10m). > > Anyway, I think hours would make sense -- it's a human-scale unit. If > people want a quarter hour, they can just say 0.15. Inputting seconds > sounds kinda ... excessively precise. Agreed on seconds being excessive, but I would probably prefer minutes over hours. Anyhow, if anyone knows functions for parsing relative dates/times, I'd appreciate it if you could point them out to me.