On 2025-08-28 16:49, Remind list wrote:
> 1. What's the best way to deal with the changing timezone?
>
> I can use IF statement to set the timeshift variable and use it to
> calculate the time gap. However the expression [block5+timeshift]
> won't increment Tue to Wed.
You might have to use expression-evaluation to operate on the whole
datetime rather than just the time. Assuming the class is at 15:30 in
the Asia/Dubai timezone, and your local timezone is CST6CDT:
REM [ \
tzconvert( \
datetime(trig("Tue"), 15:30), \
"Asia/Dubai", \
"CST6CDT" \
)] \
MSG Online course
should do the trick. On my Linux & BSD machines, I have a whole slew of
timezone files under
/usr/share/zoneinfo/*
where I have both the traditional notations like "CST6CDT" as well as by
city like "America/Chicago" depending on how you prefer it.
> 2. How to cancel the low priority event in the situation of the
> overlap?
I wish I could give you something more useful on that front, but this
is one of the two major areas[1] I struggle with Remind...determing
conflicting events is, as you note:
> seem to be very difficult, if not impossible
:-)
-tim
[1] the other is the import/export of iCalendar/ICS files which is sorta
doable with scripts, but remind is far more powerful than iCalendar/ICS
can express so it's always pretty lossy
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