[Remind-Fans] class times

[Brian Flaherty]

Hello,

I recently discovered and started using remind.  I'm trying to specify
different repeating things, like the classes I teach.  I found out how
to set date constants from the mail list archives, and it is working a
little.  Here's part of my .reminders file:

SET _fallstart	     ('2008/09/24')
SET _fallend	     ('2008/12/05')

REM Tue Thu [trigger(_fallstart)] *1 AT 11:30 UNTIL \
[trigger(_fallend)] DURATION 1:50 MSG class, room 212

My goal is to specify the start and end dates of the quarters
annually, and have classes, meeting etc. only show up while school is
in session.  (It just occurred to me that I'll also be able to one
backward one week from the quarter's end and identify finals!  I don't
know how, but I'm sure remind will do it.)

Right now, the above syntax waits until 2008/09/24 to start mentioning
the class in the output, but it does it every day.  So, it isn't
seeing the Tue and Thu?  Is the Tue and Thu above not part of the
date_spec because of the trigger function?

Am I on the right track, or is there a completely different way to do
this?  Thank you for your time.

Brian