[Remind-Fans] class times

[paul.t.hinze at gmail.com]

Brian Flaherty <bxf4 at u.washington.edu> on 2008-06-10 at 17:25:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:06:32PM -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I just realized that the Tue above was combined with the date,
> triggering every day after the first Tues. after _fallstart.  I just
> tried this, and it appeared to work:
> 
> IFTRIG Tue Thu
>        REM [trigger(_fallstart)] *1 AT 11:30 UNTIL [trigger(_fallend)] \
>         DURATION 1:50 MSG class, room 212
> ENDIF
> 
> Sorry for the unnecessary question and message.

Brian,

Sorry I wasn't able to respond to your original message, but I too have
been using remind in an academic setting (as a student rather than a
teacher), so I figured I could at least share my way of doing things.
Here are a couple of defines I have found useful:

SET MW                   "Mon Wed"
SET MWF                  "Mon Wed Fri"
SET TuTh                 "Tue Thu"
SET Semester_Fall_2007   "FROM 27 Aug 2007 UNTIL 9 Dec 2007 SKIP"
SET Semester_Spring_2008 "FROM 14 Jan 2008 UNTIL 2 May 2008 SKIP"

Using these, setting reminders for classes becomes a little more
intuitive:

REM [MWF] [Semester_Spring_2008] AT 14:00 DURATION 0:50 \
    MSG MATH 121: %"Linear Algebra%" CU128%
REM [TuTh] [Semester_Spring_2008] AT 14:00 DURATION 1:15 \ 
    MSG ENGL 156: %"Contemp. American Lit.%" CU126% 
REM [MW]  [Semester_Spring_2008] AT 16:20 DURATION 1:15 \
    MSG COSC 198: %"Embedded Systems%" CU143%

Hope this helps you out!

Regards,

Paul Hinze