Re: [O] Repeat every X business days and every Xth day-of-the-week

[Bernt Hansen]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Jay McCarthy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> ... 
>> I also wish that I could specify in some way that an event happens
>> every third Thursday of the month or on the first and third Wednesdays
>> (when my recycling cans are picked up). I don't know of a good way to
>> fit that into the current annotation scheme of + and ++.
>> 
>> If you have any advice about how I could do it myself safely, I'd be
>> happy to try and contribute.
>
> Diary s-exprs can do things like this:
>
>
> * TODO every third Thursday of the month
>   <%%(org-float t 4 3)>
>
> * TODO every first and third Wednesday of the month
>   <%%(or (org-float t 3 1) (org-float t 3 3))>

Except these TODO's don't behave like repeating tasks.  If you mark it
DONE it stays DONE as opposed to cycling back to TODO for the next
occurrence.

Regards,
Bernt