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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Subject: Re: Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:31:53 -0400
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Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy@gmail.com> writes:

> I wish that I could write +1bd on a repeating tasks so that it skips
> from Friday to Monday.
>
> I looked into implementing this myself, but there are a lot of places
> (29) where the regexp [dwmy] is used and it scares me off because I
> think I'll break something. It almost seems like you should be able to
> add a new 'what' to 'org-timestamp-change' and it will Just Work. But
> the algorithm in there would need to change a bit, because it would
> try to change by a number of days, but then adjust based on the advic
> day of the week.
>
> For now, I just manually complete the task on Saturdays and Sundays...
> but it seems wrong to get credit in the TODO -> DONE log when I really
> didn't do it :)

You can also just adjust the date with S-right until the next
occurrence - this doesn't mark it DONE.  Then you don't get 'credit' for
doing it on weekends.

HTH,
Bernt