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From: Nick Parker <nickp@developernotes.com>
To: "Jan Böcker" <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repeater Options
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:12:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf06edfd1001171412i719d8e2auc944aaf77797e205@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B538380.6080209@jboecker.de>


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Jan,

That is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

Nick Parker
www.developernotes.com


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> wrote:

> On 17.01.2010 21:31, Nick Parker wrote:
> > Is there a way to specify a todo item that is scheduled to repeat on the
> > 3rd Thursday of the month?  I tried to use +1m, however that does not
> > work the same way.  Any suggestions?
>
> For more complex repeaters like that, you need to use a diary sexp like
> this:
>
> <%%(diary-float t 4 3>
>
> The 4 specifies the 4th day of the week
> (0 = Sunday through 6 = Saturday).
>
> The 3 specifies the first Thursday.
>
> This is adapted from an example in the Org documentation; refer to
> "Diary-style sexp entries" under "8.1 Timestamps, deadlines and
> scheduling".
>
>
> I have an entry in my Org files which has two of these, to show up on
> both the second and the fourth Tuesday of every month.
>
> HTH, Jan
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-17 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-17 20:31 Repeater Options Nick Parker
2010-01-17 21:39 ` Jan Böcker
2010-01-17 21:42   ` Jan Böcker
2010-01-17 22:12   ` Nick Parker [this message]
2010-01-17 23:25   ` Ben Finney

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