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

[Sector11]

I still love remind for what it does do,}
Always have.

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:58:00 -0500
Dianne Skoll <dianne at skoll.ca> wrote:

> 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.
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