[Remind-Fans] Probe with every second Wednesday

[Paul Hoffman]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:25:35PM +0200, Stefan Pampel wrote:
> Hello remind-fans,
> 
> until now i had no problems with recurrencies like 'every second
> Wednesday of Month':
> 
> REM Wed 2 AT 18:30 +120 DURATION 2:00 MSG %a %2 %"Meeting .. %"%

Strange -- I don't know how this could have worked correctly, unless by
chance the first day of every month was Wednesday.  This line says
"remind me on each Wednesday that falls on or after the 2nd day of the
month."

This is described in the manpage under INTERPRETATION OF DATE
SPECIFICATIONS, right after the last example.

> But this month (may) this entry points to the 07th of may, which is
> the first Wednesday of month
> Whats wrong here?

You need to say "remind me on each Wednesday that falls on or after the
8th day of the month":

REM Wed 8 AT 18:30 ... (etc.)

> BTW, i have one holiday like that
> OMIT     May  1         MSG %"1. Mai, Tag der Arbeit%"%
> but i think this is ok.

This is a very different thing, because you haven't specified a day of
the week.

> Thank you,

You're welcome!

> Stefan Pampel

Paul.

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Paul Hoffman <nkuitse at nkuitse.com>