On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:08:58 +0200 Anne Wainwright <anothera...@fables.co.za> wrote:
> and I can see the issue, if I put Fri 6 May as another public holiday > then this of course does not get skipped and we again have Dustbin Day > on a public holiday now on the Friday (when the Dustbin men would just > get another day off and come the next Monday as usual). It works for me. $ cat db.rem REM 1 May SCANFROM [today()-30] OMIT Sun AFTER SATISFY 1 OMIT [trigdate()] MSG Worker's Day OMIT 6 May MSG Another Holiday REM Monday SATISFY [!isomitted($T)] MSG Dustbin Day REM Friday SATISFY [isomitted($T-4) && !isomitted($T)] MSG Dustbin Day (moved) $ remind -c db.rem 1 may 2016 # Blank lines removed below +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | May 2016 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday |Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6 |7 | | | | | | | | | | |Worker's | | | |Another | | | |Day | | | |Holiday | | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |8 |9 |10 |11 |12 |13 |14 | | | | | | | | | | |Dustbin | | | | | | | |Day | | | | | | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |15 |16 |17 |18 |19 |20 |21 | | | | | | | | | | |Dustbin | | | | | | | |Day | | | | | | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |22 |23 |24 |25 |26 |27 |28 | | | | | | | | | | |Dustbin | | | | | | | |Day | | | | | | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ |29 |30 |31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Dustbin | | | | | | | |Day | | | | | | +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ > Note 1: I am looking to see where Dianne's $T comes from, never > spotted that in the manual. It's relatively new, introduce in Remind version 3.1.8 as a synonym for trigdate() > Note 2: Dianne's SCANFROM [today() ... contrasts with Hymie's SCANFROM > [trigger(today()) ... is there something I should know here? Either works. Older versions of Remind only accept Hymie's form. Regards, Dianne. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind