[Remind-Fans] periodic popup reminders for an event days away using remind and wxremalert

[David F. Skoll]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:54:20 +0100
John Niendorf <johnniendorf at gmail.com> wrote:

> The +4320 is supposed to be the number of minutes 3 days before noon
> on Jan 18 and the *1 is supposed to trigger a popup once a minute.

Remind won't let a reminder cross a day boundary, so +4320 won't work.

You have to do it in two steps (the THROUGH keyword is new in 3.1.10;
you can use "UNTIL ... *1" instead if you are running an older version
of Remind):

# Run once a minute, all day, 15-17 Jan
REM 15 Jan 2011 THROUGH 17 Jan 2011 AT 23:59 +1439 *1 RUN ...

# Run once a minute until noon, 18 Jan
REM 18 Jan 2011 AT 12:00 + 720 *1 RUN ...

Regards,

David.