[Remind-Fans] Upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, got remind 3.3, bunch of new warnings from remind for stuff that worked before

Dianne Skoll dianne at skoll.ca
Tue Feb 25 10:32:01 EST 2020


On 2020-02-25 10:10, Jonathan Kamens via Remind-fans wrote:

> `_NotNextToShabba...' truncated to `_NotNextToShabba'

Before, Remind would silently truncate long identifier names to 16 characters.
Now it warns about that truncation.

> REM  Sun Apr  1 ++2     SATISFY [trigdate() < '2007/01/01'] MSG Daylight
Savings Time - %"DST starts%" %b%
> REM  Sun [_last(Oct)]   SATISFY [trigdate() < '2007/01/01'] MSG Daylight
Savings Time - %"DST over%"%

The issue is that the SATISFY clause can never be, well, satisfied.
Remind now issues a warning if that's the case.  A better way to write
these lines is:

> REM  Sun Apr  1 ++2 UNTIL 2006-12-31 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST
starts%" %b%
> REM  Sun [_last(Oct)] UNTIL 2006-12-31 MSG Daylight Savings Time - %"DST over%"%

Regards,

Dianne.


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