[Remind-Fans] skip reminder on trigdate

Justin Alcorn justin at jalcorn.net
Wed Sep 9 15:25:02 EDT 2009


Your remind-fu is very impressive!  I am humbled in your geeky presence.......

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:14 PM, David F. Skoll<dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> Justin Alcorn wrote:
>
>> Let's make it more of a challenge: remember, that if trash day is a
>> holiday, then trash day gets pushed one day back!
>
> Challenge shmallenge.
>
> Where I live, garbage day is a Friday.  However, if there's a holiday
> that week (on any day Monday through Friday), garbage day is moved to
> the next Saturday.
>
> On alternate weeks, we have plastic recycling (Blue Box) and paper
> recycling (Black Box)
>
> Here's an excerpt from my .reminders file.  Enjoy.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
> fset _garbhol(x) wkdaynum(x) == 5 && slide(x-5, 5) != x
> fset _garbdel() iif(wkdaynum(trigdate()) != 5, " (Delayed)", "")
>
> REM 12 November 1999 *14 AFTER OMITFUNC _garbhol MSG Black Box[_garbdel()]
> REM 19 November 1999 *14 AFTER OMITFUNC _garbhol SPECIAL COLOR 0 0 160 Blue Box[_garbdel()]
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