Re: Month/Day Conundrums
Re: Month/Day Conundrums
- Subject: Re: Month/Day Conundrums
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:40:10 +0000
"B.R." wrote on Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:47:35 -0900:
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I have an AppleScript program which I use to send e-mail announcements.
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Works great -- sending them every Saturday for the Wednesday meeting 11 days
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later -- but now the meetings are on the 1st and third Wednesdays of each
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month. How could I write a script that if today is, say, the 17th and a
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Saturday, it will add 11 days to that (I know how to do that much), see
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whether that Wednesday is the 1st or 3rd Wednesday (not), and return some
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sort of result? Thanks.
on announceToday() -- returns true or false
tell (current date) + 11 * days to ,
return its weekday is Wednesday and ,
its day is in {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21}
end announceToday
if announceToday() then...
(The character after 'to' and 'and' should be the line-continuation
character, Option-L.)
NG