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
>