[Remind-Fans] OMIT weekends and holidays

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:07:20 -0500
"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > The problem was with my "1st Monday in May" OMIT
> 
> Movable OMITs are surprising.  From the man page:
> 
>     In general, use SCANFROM as shown for safe movable OMITs.   The
> amount you  should  scan  back by (7 days in the example above)
> depends on the number of possible consecutive OMITted days that may
> occur, and on  the range of the movable holiday.  Generally, a value
> of 7 is safe.


I had read this before but it didn't click until I debugged my reminder.
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Best Regards,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz