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(Special Diary Entries): Fix Thanksgiving example.

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Glenn Morris 2007-11-11 03:17:40 +00:00
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@ -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