[Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

Dianne Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Jul 20 07:29:09 EDT 2016


On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:58:05 +0200
Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:

> OMIT May 1
> REM May 1 AFTER OMIT Sun MSG Workers Day

> REM May 1 2010 *7 AFTER OMIT Sun Tue Wed Thu Sat MSG Dustbin day
> (no, I don't know why I didn't just put 'Mon")

The problem is that on May 2, the Workers Day trigger date will be for
*next* year.  You need to use the SCANFROM keyword in the first REM.
It's documented in the manual.  Something like this should suffice:

REM May 1 SCANFROM [today()-14] AFTER OMIT Sun MSG Workers Day

Regards,

Dianne.


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