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Originally Posted by Chris
This is a bug, in my opinion, and I reported it to the Omni people some months ago. (I'd encourage you to do the same, using the "Feedback" item from the help menu.)
If you use "Repeat from: Assigned Date" rather than "Completion Date" then the time setting is properly preserved for repeating actions. Of course, that setting may not be what you want for other reasons ...
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Chris, it's a little unclear what you regard as a bug here. Perhaps you could clarify?
I think that having a repeating action based on completion date setting the start time for the next repeat to be the time of completion + the repeat interval is exactly the right behavior, especially given that a repeat interval may be less than a day. If I finish a task set to repeat every 4 hours based on completion on 8/12/08 @ 9:11AM, then I want the next one to have a start time of 8/12/08 @ 1:11PM, regardless of whether I started/finished that task early or late according to my original schedule.
I agree that it is a bit tedious changing the date but not the time of an action, often wish that I could just type the new date and have it keep the time, and more often than not simply retype the whole thing rather than fiddle around with the date/time widget and the mouse, although I would also agree with someone who said "that would totally suck for me, if I just type a new date I want the default start/due time!" because I want each behavior about half of the time :-)
I did just manage to confuse OF into setting the start/due dates for the upcoming repeat to be something completely unrelated (except the difference between start/due was the same) to either assignment time or completion time. Weird. I'll have to file a bug report for that one...