[Remind-Fans] Counting Business Days in Remind
Paul Pelzl
pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu
Tue Oct 24 01:04:16 EDT 2006
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:45:21PM -0400, GTD Wannabe wrote:
> Hi, I've been trying to figure out how to get remind to count only business
> days. For example, I really want a reminder that arrives on the 10th
> business day of the month. I've looked at the calendar, and the closest I
> can figure out is:
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> REM 15 -1 omit sat sun msg My reminder
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> since the 14th should always be at least 10 business days into the month.
> However, it's not perfect, sometimes, the 14th is not the 10th business day.
> Also, I'd like a more generic solution.
Can you give an example where this fails? It looks good to me.
I'm not aware of a more generic solution. It would be nice if Remind
offered forward scanning to complement the backward scanning...
Paul
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