Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda

[Daryl Manning]

I just usually put those in the cal manually, with a date if they have "unusual" recurrences that can;t be denoted by the standard datestamp recurrences . =]

Though for religious holidays like Easter and, I imagine, some lunar based ones, I imagine it might be handy. But honestly, I am surprised people use them anymore. I certainly have managed to avoid them up to now. They feel slightly anachronistic (much like putting in dates without timezones... =]  ).

D.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 6:36 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

Daryl Manning <daryl@wakatara.com> writes:

> Perhaps a leading question (leading to outrage =p ), but does anybody even
> use those anymore?
>
> I don't believe I've used them at all in 5 years of using org-mode (and if
> I did it was most likely because of some arcane older feature which
> required them).

diary exps is the only available way to limit the number of repetitions
of an even.

Also, see org-class, which will automatically skips holidays (let's just
ignore the issue with time zones and holidays, please; just accept the
limitation)

Some real word examples of diary sexps scheduling in the wild:
- https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ :: <%%(diary-float t 6 4)>
- https://emacs-berlin.org/ :: <%%(diary-float t 3 -1)>

Finally, religious holidays can be defined and Nth weekday before/after
month/date.

Some people even use diary sexps exclusively.

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