[Remind-Fans] Second full week in October

[B. William]

Language to humans is like water to a fish. We don't notice it until it's messy.
 - Michael DeBusk
And that's a quotable!

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 at 19:18, Michael DeBusk via Remind-fans
<remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 4:34 PM Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
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> > "The second full week" is not well-defined unless you define what a
> > "full week" is.
>
> True. Because hospitals are a 24/7 business and I'm in the US, I assume a Sunday  at midnight start to the week. I hadn't thought of it before.
>
> >    REM Sunday 8 October SCANFROM -7 SATISFY 1
> >    SET t $T
> >    REM [t] THROUGH [t+6] MSG Healthcare Security and Safety Week
>
> This is the one I decided to use. Thank you so much. I'm sure I knew about the way remind calculates things when both the date and DOW are specified, but this is the first time I've had occasion to use it.
>
> > A lot of complicated-sounding definitions are actually much simpler
> > when you untangle them.
>
> Indeed.Language to humans is like water to a fish. We don't notice it until it's messy.
>
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