Hi ! If I understood well, I think that the difference between C-c . and C-c ! is that the timestamp is active or not.
<DATE> is an active date that appear in agenda view. So you have ti use it if you want to see the task scheduled or deadlined. [DATE] format does not allow the timestamp to interact with agenda view. It is used to indicate date just for information. Lolo Le 23/01/2012 17:01, François Pinard a écrit :
Hi, Org people! :-) Commands `C-c .' and `C-c !' both insert a time stamp in the buffer, and the date is prompted in the mini-buffer in the same way for both commands. One of them is going to insert<DATE>, the other [DATE]. The mini-buffer always show<DATE>, like this: Date+time [2012-01-23]: => <2012-01-23 lun> Could it be: Date+time [2012-01-23]: => [2012-01-23 lun] when appropriate? This feedback would be useful (to me at least), in case I mixed `C-c .' and `C-c !' in my head, and am using the wrong one. François