[Remind-Fans] help with "garbage day"

[Paul Pelzl]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:41:57AM -0800, brian hammond wrote:
> 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.

Crap, I misread your problem statement.  The same sort of logic should
work, but you'll have to start by triggering on the first non-omitted
weekday:

   # SCHEDULE TRASH DAY
   # (locate first non-omitted weekday)
   REM Mon AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-2)] SATISFY 1
   # (schedule trash day on the next non-omitted day
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER MSG trash

   # SCHEDULE PAPER RECYCLING DAY
   # (locate first non-omitted weekday)
   REM Mon AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-4)] SATISFY 1
   # (locate trash day)
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-3)] SATISFY 1
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER MSG recycle paper

   # SCHEDULE PLASTIC RECYCLING DAY
   # (locate first non-omitted weekday)
   REM Mon AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-7)] SATISFY 1
   # (locate trash day)
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-6)] SATISFY 1
   # (locate paper recycling day)
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(today()-5)] SATISFY 1
   REM [trigger(trigdate()+1)] AFTER MSG recycle plastic

At this point things are getting a bit cumbersome.  I'd really like to
reduce this to about four REM statements, but ran into some problems
with the way OMITs interact with SCANFROM.  Perhaps someone else has a
better suggestion.

Paul