From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Repeating dates on named weekdays Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:31:03 +1100 Message-ID: <877hrhlm1k.fsf@benfinney.id.au> References: <4e7bd29e1001151112j71cdefb5jefe75c5cbb299d4e@mail.gmail.com> <86iqb3ndxr.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWHB9-0000U6-EU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:31:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWHB4-0000R3-Cg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:31:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44056 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWHB4-0000Qn-4n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:31:30 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57115) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWHB3-0005d3-Qc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:31:30 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NWHB0-0000S7-9S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:31:26 +0100 Received: from eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.214.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:31:26 +0100 Received: from ben+emacs by eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:31:26 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Glauber Alex Dias Prado writes: > William Halliburton writes: > > How can one enter in repeating dates such as > > > > every third thursday of each month > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Repeating-items.html#Repeating-items > http://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html#Repeated-tasks That doesn't help. Neither of those pages say anything about this common use case. I do wish the Org manual, at least, would give an example of what the OP is asking for: repeating events on “every month on the Nth D-weekday at T time”, and how to translate the N, D, and T into some Org date+time format that will give that result. I'd provide a suggested addition to the manual, but I still don't understand the baroque sexp date format myself. -- \ “Good morning, Pooh Bear”, said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a | `\ good morning”, he said. “Which I doubt”, said he. —A. A. Milne, | _o__) _Winnie-the-Pooh_ | Ben Finney