[Remind-Fans] 5th business day of the month

[yard-ape at telus.net]

Harold Ditchfield <hditchfield at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hey All
>
> A question if I could
>
> I have a requirement for identifying the 5th business day of the month. This would omit holidays, SAT and SUN. so the 5th business day would normally fall anywhere between the 5th and the 8th of the month
>
> Examples
> - If Mon is the 1st and there are no holidays then the 5th business day would be the 5th of the month
> - If Tue is the 1st and there are no holidays then the 5th business day would be the 7th of the month (skipping SAT+SUN)
> - If Tue is the 1st and the 1st is a holiday then the 5th business day would be the 8th of the month (skipping holiday, SAT + SUN)
>
> I have come up with some code that appears to be working correctly but was wondering if there is a more elegant solution than the one I came up with
>
> Code (presupposing OMITs for holidays are defined elsewhere)
> ...
> SET FIRST date( year( today() ), monnum( today() ), 1 )
>
> IF [ nonomitted( FIRST, today(), "SAT", "SUN"  ) == 4 ] 
>    REM [ today() ] +3 OMIT SAT SUN AFTER MSG 5TH Business DAY %b.% 
> ENDIF 
>
> ...
>
> Thanks
> Harold
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1       To: remind-fans at lists.roaringpenguin.com
2       Subject: Android
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4       Just began using an Android phone and intend to avoid the built-in HTC and Google calendar apps.
5
6       But before setting up my own sync system with remind---
7       anyone else set up any Android-specific tools yet?
8
9       Sadly I don't have the time to write an Android GUI but maybe some will know of other tools to get half-way there?
10
11      Thanks!