[Remind-Fans] Repeat every six months

hymie! hymie at nasalinux.net
Fri Mar 4 14:14:36 EST 2022


On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 02:04:03PM -0500, Michael DeBusk via Remind-fans wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 7:23 AM Tim Chase via Remind-fans
> <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
> 
> > As an alternative, you could have a single event like
> >
> >   REM 1 --1 SATISFY [$Tm % 6 == 3] MSG Event
> 
> This does what I want, I agree, and I somehow can't seem to make sense
> of the "[Tm % 6 ==3]" part. Until I understand what is happening, I'll
> stick with the more readable version.

"Take the number of the month (Tm) , divide it by 6, and check the remainder."
The remainder is 3 during the months of March and September.

--hymie!


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