[Remind-Fans] Better way to do "every other weekend"?

[Jonathan Kamens]

On 7/12/21 3:48 PM, Hymie! via Remind-fans wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:40:32 -0500
>> Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Over on Mastodon I was recently asked how to put an event on "every
>>> other weekend".  This is what I came up with:
>>>    REM Sat Sun SATISFY ((abs($T - date(2021,7,10)) % 14) < 2)
>>>    IF trigvalid()
>>>      REM [$T] MSG Every other weekend
>>>    ENDIF
>> That works, but I'd write it more succinctly as:
>>
>> REM Sat Sun FROM 2021-07-10 SATISFY [(($T - '2021-07-10') % 14) < 2] MSG Every
>> other weekend
> Is there a reason why we're avoiding
>
> rem 21 jan 2020 *14 msg Every other Tuesday
>
> (That's not a weekend, but the same construct should work on a Saturday
> or a Sunday.)
Presumably because that would require two reminders rather than one.
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