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Re: Bug with diary-float ?


From: Edward M. Reingold
Subject: Re: Bug with diary-float ?
Date: 28 Apr 2008 12:07:19 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4

>>>>> "BA" == Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:

    BA> Huh? Are you saying that May 4, 2008 should count as a "5th Sunday of
    BA> the month"? diary-float works as I'd expect for all cases where the
    BA> date actually exists in the month e.g. 1st Wednesday, 3rd Wednesday,
    BA> 2nd Saturday, etc.

Yes; the function was intended to give you a day of the week after/before a
certain point, like, "The third Tuesday after November 12."  If you want to
restrict it to a particular interval, you can do that too, why restrict it to
a calendar month?

You can easily write whatever function you want!

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