Hi all,
How do I schedule a repeating org-mode task for the last day of every month?
As is, when I set a task deadlines like DEADLINE:
<2017-03-31 Fri +1m>
, marking it done shifts the
date to DEADLINE: <2017-05-01 Fri +1m>
which
is a day too late if the deadline is the end of the month. Dates
scheduled for the beginning of the month properly advance to the
first of the following month, regardless of number of days in each
month, so there is inconsistency in how the beginning and end of
months are treated.
I previously posted this question on the Emacs StackExchange: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/31683/schedule-org-task-for-last-day-of-every-month
I received solutions involving either manually duplicating
date-shifted tasks or creating a custom diary function. Since
scheduling repeating deadlines for the end of each month is a
common use case, I feel this should be built into org mode if it
is not already. If the same logic which shifts dates at the
beginning of the month is applied to the end of the month, a nice
symmetry would be created without adding any additional notation.
Then <2017-03-31 Fri +1m>
would shift to <2017-04-30
Sun +1m>
as I originally expected it to.
Thoughts? I am willing to implement this feature and update the
docs.
Jesse