[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:
> 
>  
> 
> REM 15 -1 omit sat sun msg My reminder
> 
>  
> 
> 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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