Ah - Canada is getting up ... Good morning!
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:42:22 -0400 "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote: > > > I also created a variable for convenience: > > SET by "by %w %d%s %m %y" > > MSG %"make dental appointment %" [by] % > > > 1) how can I achieve that the date is replaced by > > "today"/"tomorrow" on the trigger day and the day before > > respectively? > > You can make it a function. Something like this (see the man page for > the "choose" built-in function): > > FSET by() choose(trigdate()-today()+1, "today", "tomorrow", "by %w > %d%s %m %y") How ingenious! > > As an aside: After the trigger day (if using *1), %u displays > > "today". I would find it more useful if it showed the date, and > > maybe even yesterday on the day after. > > Remind does not handle substitution for days *after* the trigger date; > that would be a big change. I can look into it, though. I just thought it would be good to be aware of missed appointments, such as "Tax return due yesterday" followed by an if late then £100 penalty message. ;-) -- Best Regards, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz (Scotland) _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
