[Remind-Fans] Help calculating payday

[fREW Schmidt]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Simon Ruderich wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 04:15:25PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying (as an excercise mostly) to figure out how to represent my
> > payday in remind.  The way payday works at my company is that it is
> > the fourth weekday of the month.  So to be clear, in June of this year
> > that would end up being the 6th.
> >
> > Do I have to use a user defined function for this?  I don't see a way to
> > do it with the ... less programmatic syntax, as - goes backwards and +
> > means something else entirely.
>
>     REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 4 MSG Payday
>
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>
> [1]: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/download/remind-oclug.pdf

I actually read that PDF and tried that exact example.  The problem is
that it doesn't actually do what I'm trying to do.  If I understand
correctly the command above triggers for the first weekday after the
fourth.  What I need is the fourth weekday of the month.  If you look
at June 2013 the fourth weekday (not the first weekday after the
fourth) is the 6th.


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fREW Schmidt
http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
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