[Remind-Fans] Moving trash day around when holidays occur on weekdays before

[Tim Chase]

On 2018-04-08 11:21, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> Tim Chase <remind at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> > Is there some way to scan backwards for any OMITs that occur
> > during the weekdays on/prior to a given trigger-date?  
> 
> I had to solve this *exact* problem.  Here's my solution:
[snip]

This is beautiful and something I'm pretty sure would be nigh
impossible to implement in an ordinary ical/rrule specification.

Many thanks!

-tim

[PS]

> To understand how this works, you'll need to look up the OMITFUNC
> clause and the "slide" function definition.  And translate from
> Canadian ("garbage") to American ("trash") :)

Hah, didn't realize that was a US-vs-Can thing.  I use both pretty
interchangeably.