Great help! Thank you and Tim for the quick solutions. I have known `remind` for several years but did not put effort into mastering it until now. My case is real and extracted from managing my daughter's education.
After COVID, the world is more "online". The timezone issue will plague more people than it did, especially when an educator try to put together various online resources into one plan. I see it as an opportunity for `remind` growing it usage in community. Not sure how difficult to make `remind` recognize timezone information from the ground zero. Worth a feature request? As to the fix to the second issue, i.e. canceling the lower priority event, I understand the `remind`'s inherent execution logic does not support such a behavior, which itself is arguably a recommended practice. However, the fix requires to mix up two timetables together. The boundary cannot be kept for the independence of two sets of data (events). It is not ideal as the rem file may become messier because each semester's timetables will change overtime. I am thinking of using display tricks to overcome that, meaning lower priority event will use a lighter color in overlapping events. It is only applicable in HTML though. At last, a shout out to Tim's blog on `remind`, which helps me a lot. On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 11:52:31AM -0400, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:49:57 +1000 > Jin Chen via Remind-fans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1. What's the best way to deal with the changing timezone? > > Probably using the tzconvert() function assuming you have a new-enough > version of Remind. > > As you've discovered, Remind insists on everything being in the local > timezone and is not great at handling different timezones. > > ... > > Reagrds, > > Dianne. > _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
