Our dentist now has a 7mo waiting-list so it's advantageous to schedule your NEXT appointment a month before your impending 6-month checkup.
So my hope was to create a dental-appointment reminder like REM Jan 12 2026 AT 9:00am MSG Dentist and then do a little math to create a "call and set up an appointment for 7mo from now" event on a Monday sometime about a month before that appointment. My first try was something like REM Jan 12 2026 AT 9:00am MSG Dentist REM Mon [$T - 35] REM Call dentist where all I need to do is update the most recent dental appointment date and have the call-reminder come along without any editing. And that seemed to work (some BANNER and $AddBlankLines=0 for quietude) $ rem -q 2025-12-8 Call dentist until I then tested a date after the actual dental appointment $ rem -q 2026-1-13 /home/demo/.reminders(6): `-': Date overflow No reminders. Which makes sense because $T didn't actually fire for the dental appointment (because it was in the past), so the [$T-35] produces an out-of-range date. The closest I've been able to come with the least redundancy is something like SET dentaldate date(2026,1,12) REM [dentaldate] AT 9:00am MSG Dentist REM Mon [dentaldate - 35] MSG Call dentist which passes all my tests, but feels a bit weird. Is there some better way to achieve what I'm aiming for here? Thanks! -tim -- _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
