[Remind-Fans] Re: time zones

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Ted Rolle wrote:

> So, if remind "knows" the local time zone (from the TZ variable) and the
> time zone that the reminder says, seems like it could (or made to)
> calculate the local time.

Indeed... let's say you have something happening at 11:00am EST.  That's
4:00pm UTC.

REM [trigger('2004-01-06', 16:00, 1)] MSG Meeting at 4:00pm UTC.

See the man page, the "minsfromutc" function, and the "trigger" function.
The trigger function above will automatically take care of cases where
converting from UTC changes the date as well as the time.  For example,
this will trigger at 11:00pm EST on January 6:

REM [trigger('2004-01-07', 4:00, 1)] MSG Meeting at 4:00am UTC.

Regards,

David.