[Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

[Dianne Skoll]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:08:58 +0200
Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at 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.