On 2/9/22 19:00, Tim Chase via Remind-fans wrote:
On 2022-02-09 17:36, Eben King via Remind-fans wrote:
I'm not sure why you're testing $U==today() because that will
always be true... $U and today() are equivalent.
Well, heck. I was going by an example in
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/remind/
that says
SATISFY [$U == realtoday()] MSG Only appears today
As the author of that post, I suppose I should chime in here... :-)
Excellent. Horse's mouth and all that.
Note the difference between realtoday() (the actual date) and
today() (the date that might be today, but might be the date
specified on the command-line, or any date in the calendar-view).
today() is like the index in a for-loop then.
For multiple events you only want to show up on the actual day, I'd
likely do something like
IF $U == realtoday()
# events to only show if they happen on the realtoday()
REM Tue AT 19:45 MSG Main movie night
REM Fri AT 20:45 MSG Aux movie night
ENDIF
Yeah, that's roughly what I settled on yesterday. I was going to wait until
Friday to confirm it works (though my testing showed it probably would), but
yay.
if today()==realtoday()
REM Friday AT 20:45 MSG Movie night.%
REM Tuesday AT 19:45 MSG Auxiliary movie night.%
endif
I used today() instead of $U to make it more obvious to a novice reader (aka
me) what's going on. BTW, is there a way of doing an inline comment? #
doesn't work. "Invalid character"
Hopefully that sheds more light on that
Thanks!
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