I still love remind for what it does do,} Always have. On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:58:00 -0500 Dianne Skoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2020-02-18 09:36, Sector11 wrote: > > > Bob (will be) 47 in 3m 6d > > Christmas (in) 5m 16d > > Debian 11 (in) 3y 5m 18d > > Remind does not have a built-in way to express a duration as X > years, Y months and Z days. In general, there's no way to express a > time interval that way unless you know the duration in days and the > starting point (or equivalently, the ending point.) > > You might be able to write functions to do this in Remind's built-in > language, but it will be extremely painful. Remind is deliberately > not Turing-complete (so that we can prove a Reminder file always terminates) > and so programming general-purpose functions is really hard. > > Regards, > > Dianne. > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
