[Remind-Fans] Help calculating payday

[Simon Ruderich]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 04:15:25PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying (as an excercise mostly) to figure out how to represent my
> payday in remind.  The way payday works at my company is that it is
> the fourth weekday of the month.  So to be clear, in June of this year
> that would end up being the 6th.
>
> Do I have to use a user defined function for this?  I don't see a way to
> do it with the ... less programmatic syntax, as - goes backwards and +
> means something else entirely.

    REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 4 MSG Payday

Weekdays are handled specially, they trigger on or after the
given day. So this triggers on the first of 4th, 5th, 6th, ...
which is a Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu or Fri.

The slides at [1] explain the basics of remind very well
(including your payday, slide 18).

Regards
Simon

[1]: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/download/remind-oclug.pdf
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