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author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2007-11-11 03:17:40 +0000 |
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committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2007-11-11 03:17:40 +0000 |
commit | b409ff248a897530ab79e03ef73e7160826e2022 (patch) | |
tree | 260a0790377b176f19144199cd2846c8f5e8edbf /man | |
parent | d5f8ae01473f2e6a4a84b1ebf7f20ec8c58ca27d (diff) | |
download | emacs-b409ff248a897530ab79e03ef73e7160826e2022.tar.gz |
(Special Diary Entries): Fix Thanksgiving example.
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diff --git a/man/calendar.texi b/man/calendar.texi index c111eac354f..e330d6f2f48 100644 --- a/man/calendar.texi +++ b/man/calendar.texi @@ -1397,19 +1397,19 @@ nonmarking (with @samp{&}) when possible. specifies a regularly occurring event by offsets specified in days, weeks, and months. It is comparable to a crontab entry interpreted by the @code{cron} utility. Here is a nonmarking, floating diary entry -that applies to the last Thursday in November: +that applies to the fourth Thursday in November: @findex diary-float @example -&%%(diary-float 11 4 -1) American Thanksgiving +&%%(diary-float 11 4 4) American Thanksgiving @end example @noindent The 11 specifies November (the eleventh month), the 4 specifies Thursday (the fourth day of the week, where Sunday is numbered zero), and the -@minus{}1 specifies ``last'' (1 would mean ``first,'' 2 would mean -``second,'' @minus{}2 would mean ``second-to-last,'' and so on). The -month can be a single month or a list of months. Thus you could change +second 4 specifies the fourth Thursday (1 would mean ``first,'' 2 would +mean ``second,'' @minus{}2 would mean ``second-to-last,'' and so on). +The month can be a single month or a list of months. Thus you could change the 11 above to @samp{'(1 2 3)} and have the entry apply to the last Thursday of January, February, and March. If the month is @code{t}, the entry applies to all months of the year.@refill |