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Re: How to display count of repeating events

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On 9/29/16, 6:11 PM, in article
here-A090B4.03111430092016@news.individual.net, "android" <here@there.was>
wrote:

> In article <D412B23F.7EE11%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>,
>  Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/29/16, 11:38 AM, in article
>> here-09C007.20385029092016@news.individual.net, "android" <here@there.was>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <D4129261.7ED94%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>,
>>>  Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 9/29/16, 5:19 AM, in article 290920160819564869%star@sky.net, "Davoud"
>>>> <star@sky.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Gary:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I might want something much more important to me to have
>>>>>> sequential numbers on the successive occurrences of a repeating event.
>>>>>> I wondered why Apple didn't provide it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I hope you took away from this discussion the fact that Apple *did*
>>>>> provide the functionality that you want in Calendar.app.
>>>> 
>>>> They have repeating events but not ones where you have count-downs (or
>>>> count-ups)... and it would be a cool feature, even if one that was not used
>>>> that often.
>>> 
>>> Oki... But why? If you put a reminder, or "message alarm" for a
>>> repeating event then you have will have to click it away and it will be
>>> very hard to miss.
>> 
>> My kids are old enough now where I just tell them to figure it out, but it
>> used to be that before every birthday and major holiday my kids wanted to
>> know how many days until X. Having had a mark on my calendar, or, even
>> better, on a read-only one for the kids, would have been great.
>> 
>> We did make for some holidays a count-down calendar out of paper where each
>> day they got to flip up or rip off a cover for a number. And there was
>> nothing wrong with that but I would not want to (and did not) make one for
>> every event.
>> 
>> Now that I have my script I would just modify it to add daily events.
>> 
>> But even if I did not ever have such a need or understand why someone else
>> would, does not mean I cannot help them with it. Also does not mean you
>> cannot have a different solution you think will fulfill the same task.
> 
> I was going  on the OPs description of purpose: He didn't want to miss a
> pill.

Even with that, if you have a reminder a day you may forget if you have
taken it or not. As it turned out, his was a simple case: the day of the
month works as the counter (1=1, 2=2, etc.). But even if he was a day off of
that it would be useful. But, yes, as written the date seems to work as
well. :)


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How to display count of repeating events Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-28 05:32 -0400
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-28 14:43 +0000
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-28 16:33 +0000
      Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:58 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:57 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 11:55 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 12:46 -0700
      Re: How to display count of repeating events android <here@there.was> - 2016-09-28 22:06 +0200
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:59 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-09-29 08:23 +1200
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:56 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 13:55 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-28 18:40 -0400
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 17:02 -0700
  Re: How to display count of repeating events Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-28 20:38 -0400
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-09-29 13:59 +1200
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 19:24 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 19:57 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-29 04:30 +0000
      Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 21:44 -0700
    Re: How to display count of repeating events Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-09-29 08:19 -0400
      Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-29 09:41 -0700
        Re: How to display count of repeating events android <here@there.was> - 2016-09-29 20:38 +0200
          Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-29 11:57 -0700
            Re: How to display count of repeating events android <here@there.was> - 2016-09-30 03:11 +0200
              Re: How to display count of repeating events Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-29 18:14 -0700

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