[Remind-Fans] help with "garbage day"

[brian hammond]

Interesting... Thanks. That's close to what I had but I didn't get it all the way there.

The only issue with this is that if a holiday falls on a Monday, the rest of the items aren't shifted ahead one day.

Perhaps it's something like:

# schedule trash day
REM Mon SKIP SATISFY 1
IF ISOMITTED(TRIGDATE())
  REM Wed AFTER MSG trash
ELSE 
  REM Tue AFTER MSG trash
ENDIF

But I'm not sure how to detect the actual trash day in the following paper and plastic checks.
  
Any ideas Mr. Wizard? :)

- Brian

----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu>
To: Users of the <remind-fans at whatexit.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:01:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Remind-Fans] help with "garbage day"

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:55:25PM -0800, brian hammond wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm new to remind and cannot grok this one. Help!
> 
> trash goes out on Tue
> recyclable paper on Wed
> recyclable plastic on Thu
> 
> A holiday on any working day (Mon - Fri) causes each of the above that come after the holiday to pushed ahead a day.

I think you want something like this:

   # schedule trash day
   REM Tue AFTER MSG trash

   # schedule paper recycling day
   # (first locate previous trash day)
   REM Tue AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-3)] SATISFY 1
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER MSG recycle paper

   # schedule plastic recycling day
   # (first locate previous trash day)
   REM Tue AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-6)] SATISFY 1
   # (next locate previous paper recycling day)
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-5)] SATISFY 1
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER MSG recycle plastic

The SCANFROM business is required because if "today()" is Wednesday,
then we have to look backward in time to a *prior* Tuesday to determine
whether or not trash day was time-shifted.

Hope that helps,

Paul


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