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Re: timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line
From: |
Colin Baxter |
Subject: |
Re: timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:17:16 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>> Hello, I have my timeclock workday set to 12 hours by means of
>> (setq timeclock-workday (* 12 60 60))
>> This works fine in emacs-27.2 and correctly displays the
>> remaining time in the mode-line.
>> This appears not to be the case for emacs-28.0.50, which insists
>> on assuming the workday to be the default 8 hours when displaying
>> the remaining time in the mode-line.
>> The differences between the timeclock.el files for 27.2 and
>> 28.0.50 seem pretty minimal and I don't see why the latter should
>> ignore my setting for timeclock-workday. I have checked the
>> variable via C-h v timeclock-workday <RET> in emacs-28.0.50 and
>> it does indeed give the value I set, namely 43200 (with the
>> original value as 28800).
> The issue seems to be with the setting
> (timeclock-mode-line-display 1)
> in my ~/.emacs. If I comment out that setting and allow
> emacs-28.0.50 to display the remaining time by doing M-x
> timeclock-mode-line-display <RET> then the remaining time is
> displayed correctly.
It seems to be the case with emacs-28.0.50 that the setting
(timeclock-mode-line-display 1) must come after any setting of the
timeclock-workday in ~/.emacs. If this is done then all seems to work as
before.
Best wishes,
Colin Baxter.