From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Bremner Subject: Re: Re: Feature request: Periodic events based on count of specific weekdays Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87hbsn4mgj.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca> References: <87ws214lpo.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <87fx8p434f.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <87bpjc4u4i.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <87vdh6gmpc.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> <77D21500-F2A5-45AA-9490-660C4AA7EF07@gmail.com> <87r5rsdcuk.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Reply-To: David Bremner Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.14.1 - "Choanoflagellata") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBxA7-0005jc-5s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:31 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBxA2-0005gW-KP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:30 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42403 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBxA2-0005gT-Fb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:26 -0500 Received: from pivot.cs.unb.ca ([131.202.240.57]:50230) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBxA2-0002eu-1t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:26 -0500 Received: from bremner by pivot.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NBx9z-0005Rs-82 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r5rsdcuk.fsf@benfinney.id.au> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ben Finney Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ben Finney wrote: >I'm surprised at this assertion. Just about every club or social >organisation, etc., that I've heard of that meets monthly, does so by >meeting =E2=80=9Con the second Tuesday of the month=E2=80=9D or equivalent= monthly >specification. It's surely not seldom in my experience. I missed some context, so maybe this was already mentioned, but for things like this it should be possible to use diary lisp style date entries %%(diary-float t 2 1) 19:00 Club meeting seems to do the "First Tuesday of the month" for me. Notice that there must be no space at the beginning of the line. d