[Remind-Fans] ask remind what timed reminder is currently happening

[Paul Pelzl]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Phil Snowberger wrote:
> I'm wondering if somebody has already devised a way to ask remind what
> timed reminder (with a duration) is "currently happening".  That is, if
> you have
> 
> REM Sep 8 2006 AT 09:00 DURATION 03:30 MSG Do things, and also stuff %
> 
> and it's currently 10am, I would like to be able to get remind to spit
> out just the string "Do things, and also stuff", or possibly with the
> start and end time of the reminder as well.

Remind doesn't actually track durations internally (except to print them
as output), so it can't provide this sort of information.  I think the
solution is to write a page or so of code to parse the output of 
"rem -s".

Paul