Re: [O] Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week

[Nick Dokos]

Jay McCarthy <address@hidden> 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:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

* 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))>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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Nick