From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:30:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87y5qyca00.fsf@norang.ca> References: <6515.1332052151@alphaville> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9GBg-0005lX-Pq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:30:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9GBf-0001nY-4P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:30:20 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:48768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9GBf-0001n8-0Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:30:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6515.1332052151@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:29:11 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: Jay McCarthy , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > Jay McCarthy wrote: > >> ... >> I also wish that I could specify in some way that an event happens >> every third Thursday of the month or on the first and third Wednesdays >> (when my recycling cans are picked up). I don't know of a good way to >> fit that into the current annotation scheme of + and ++. >> >> If you have any advice about how I could do it myself safely, I'd be >> happy to try and contribute. > > Diary s-exprs can do things like this: > > > * TODO every third Thursday of the month > <%%(org-float t 4 3)> > > * TODO every first and third Wednesday of the month > <%%(or (org-float t 3 1) (org-float t 3 3))> Except these TODO's don't behave like repeating tasks. If you mark it DONE it stays DONE as opposed to cycling back to TODO for the next occurrence. Regards, Bernt