[Remind-Fans] Can remind "count" time?

[Dianne Skoll]

On 2020-02-18 09:36, Sector11 wrote:

> Bob (will be) 47 in 3m 6d
> Christmas (in) 5m 16d
> Debian 11 (in) 3y 5m 18d

Remind does not have a built-in way to express a duration as X
years, Y months and Z days.  In general, there's no way to express a
time interval that way unless you know the duration in days and the
starting point (or equivalently, the ending point.)

You might be able to write functions to do this in Remind's built-in
language, but it will be extremely painful.  Remind is deliberately
not Turing-complete (so that we can prove a Reminder file always terminates)
and so programming general-purpose functions is really hard.

Regards,

Dianne.