Hi Austin,
I am afraid this is too much overhead when creating dates. Org has
some ways to eld scheduling something while you are at the agenda,
where you see the empty spots.
Check out the description of C-c c-x C-k in
http://orgmode.org/manual/Inserting-deadline_002fschedule.html#Inserting-d
Carsten and other org-folk--
Any chance that it would be possible to query the agenda to see whether
anything is scheduled at a particular time? The application I have in
mind is scheduling new events with remember templates. If there's
already something in the agenda for the timestamp I enter i