Re: Recurring events with exceptions

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Skip,

> [a slightly off-topic rant]

You might find some luck with applications that follow the iCalendar
standard.  There, a re-occuring event may have an end date.  And when
you move ("this week's meeting is 30 minutes later") or delete some
occurence ("no meeting on christmas"), it will add that as an exception
to the re-occuring event definition and clone that as a new once-only
event in case of a move (probably keeping some connection with it).

[But I think there's no concept of re-occuring exceptions, like "there
will never be any meetings at Christmas"...]

That said, this is pretty complex and the apps I've used before org-mode
(KOrganizer, Evolution) managed to mess things up in certain cases
without even being visible to me at first.  I just noticed some time
later that some appointments were simply wrong or totally missing.

I've learned my lessons: now I accept infinitely repeating entries or
switch to sexp entries if really needed.  But at least I know that
nothing I do will somehow corrupt my calendar, because *I* am the master
of timestamps, not some GUI that DTRT only in 90% of the cases.

Bye,
Tassilo