[Remind-Fans] sort of a 'duration' question

[David F. Skoll]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Dave W wrote:

> 	I'm brand new to remind and am struggling along.  I'm trying to put my
> maintenace schedule into remind and rem2html format, and striking out on
> one point:  I have, for example, quarterly maintenance that is due,
> obviously, four times a year.  The time it's open is, say, 25 days per
> quarter in the middle of the quarter, say Feb 05 plus 25 days, and then
> repeat next quarter for 25 days, ad infinitum.

Something like this should work:

# Calculate next 5 Feb, or 5 Feb no more than ~30 days ago
REM 5 Feb SCANFROM [trigger(today()-30)] SATISFY 1

# Save starting and ending dates
set start trigdate()
set end start + 25

# Issue reminder
REM [trigger(start)] *1 UNTIL [trigger(end)] MSG Maintenance!

Sorry, I can't go into an in-depth explanation. :-)

--
David.