[Remind-Fans] error: month specified twice

[Javier Rojas]

2007/3/13, T E Schmitz <mailreg at numerixtechnology.de>:
>
> Paul Pelzl wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:40:36PM +0000, T E Schmitz wrote:
> >
> >>I cannot see for the life of me what's wrong with the following
> reminder:
> >>
> >>REM 01 Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan +7 council tax due
> >>Error: "Month specified twice"
> >
> >
> > The remind date spec allows for multiple weekdays, but not for multiple
> > months.  You can accomplish the same thing by adding a SATISFY clause
> > which verifies that trigdate() has a month which falls in the specified
> > range.
>
> That does it:
>
> REM 01 SATISFY monnum(trigdate()) == JAN || monnum(trigdate()) >= APR
> IF trigvalid()
>      REM [trigger(trigdate())] +7 %"council tax due%" %v %
> ENDIF
>
> I might still want to improve the reminder: the trigger date should be
> the weekday (and non-holiday) on or before the 1st.


try the keyword "BEFORE". See the man page

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>
> Regards,
>
> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
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