Udo Richter wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> this will allow defining timers that are more than a >> month in the future > > > Nice. Esp. since I already have a (deactivated) timer for Apr. 30 in my > timers. ;) > > While you're breaking compatibility anyway, please consider allowing > bi-weekly timers that only fire every second (fourth?) week. This is a > far more common case. > > Format suggestion: > MTWTFSS*n (fire on next matching day, then skip n times/weeks) > MTWTFSS*n@YYYY-MM-DD (fire on YYYY-MM-DD, then skip n times/weeks) I'm afraid this would make things overly complicated. I also have one timer that records a monthly show, but the distance between shows is not necessarily always exactly four weeks - sometimes it may well be five weeks, for instance. Therefore I have a weekly timer, and usually at the end of a show they announce when the next one will be broadcast - then I set the "first day" of that timer to the given date. For anything more complicated there are tools like vdradmin, for instance. Klaus
