Re: Specifying date _and_ time for a delayed article?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> When I press C-c C-j to delay an article, I'm prompted like this:
>
>   "Target date (YYYY-MM-DD), time (hh:mm), or length of delay (units in mhdwMY): 3d"
>
> This is nice and flexible. In this particular case, I wanted to send an
> article on a specific date _and_ time.
>
> So I tried entering "2021-07-14 17:03:30", and Gnus happily accepted
> that. But if I look at the delayed article in nndraft:delayed, the
> header is:
>
>   X-Gnus-Delayed: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:00:00 +0200
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to either use the date and time entered, OR
> at least reject the string as invalid, rather than changing the time to
> 08:00:00?
>
> What do you think, patches accepted?

In my opinion we should be trying to find and use some other, Emacs-wide
date-time prompt function, rather than writing something Gnus-specific.
Org also ships with Emacs, and it has very good datetime prompts, but it
could be a little too tied to Org, I haven't actually looked at it.

Anyway, maybe that function doesn't even exist yet, but I think that
would be a better approach!