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Originally Posted by whpalmer4 View Post
The underlying problem seems to be that the importer is broken -- I'm not able to get it to understand start/due dates or durations. I've filed a report.
It turns out that if you set the column type in OmniOutliner to date, the dates will be successfully imported, otherwise they will be inserted into the notes field as metadata. Why that is necessary when OmniFocus has been told that a certain column is a date, I can't say. I retract my previous claim that the importer is broken with respect to dates, and wish to substitute an assertion that someone needs to either document this shortcoming or remove it :) Durations, however, are still broken. Either nothing comes across (for example, if you have a fractional hour), or the units are wrong (1h in the OO doc becomes 1m in the OF doc).

This has very little to do with the Things->OF importer script as it currently stands, but is provided for completeness if someone finds this thread while searching for information on importing into OF...