[Remind-Fans] Overdue items (cont.)

[Theodore M Rolle, Jr.]

I've always thought "1 days" comes from lazy programming or illiterate
programmers.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, <morel_rf at armory.com> wrote:

> Oops. The plural() isn't needed. Substitute
>
>   abs(date-today()) + " days ago",\
>
> If handling both singular and plural, and if wanted to use plural(),
> need to handle the -1 case with, e.g.,  FSET _plural(x) plural(abs(x))
> (in Remind version 03.01.05, anyway.)
>
> Tony
>
>
> > FSET _dayinterval(date,phrasing) iif(\
> >   ((date-today()) < -1),\
> >   abs(date-today()) + " day" + plural(date-today()) + " ago",\
> >   ((date-today()) == -1),\
> >   "yesterday",\
> >   ((date-today()) == 1),\
> >   "tomorrow",\
> >   ((date-today()) > 1),\
> >   iif(phrasing == "indaystime", "in ","") + \
> >   (date-today()) + \
> >   iif(phrasing == "indaystime", " days' time", \
> >       phrasing == "daysfromnow", " days from now", ""),\
> >   "today")
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