Emacs org-mode: how to avoid duplicate lines in agenda, when items is scheduled AND has deadline

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Published on 2012-11-06T09:08:48Z Indexed on 2012/11/06 17:06 UTC
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Many of my TODO items in Emacs org-mode have a DEADLINE defined in the future (e. g. Friday) and are at the same time SCHEDULED today so that I already know I have to start working on this task.

Then, this task will appear twice in my agenda. That's not nice but not necessarily a problem yet, but if then

the task has assigned a time estimate for its duration and
I go to column view with C-C C-X C-C to see how much time my tasks today will need,

the time estimate for this task is counted twice, so e. g. if the time effort estimate is 2 hours, I'll have 4 hours in my daily agenda, as the item appears as well as scheduled today (or in the past) as also with its deadline in 3 days.

How can I avoid counting an item twice?

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