[SWLUG] SWLUG Carmarthen Meeting Reminder

[Dick Bain]

hehe ;-)
sorry about the top posting :P

On 21/01/2008, Dafydd Walters <dafydd at walters-home.net> wrote:
> Chris M. Jackson wrote:
> > I suspect an off-by-one with the cron job  ...
> >
>
> I've now fixed the automated reminder script. Hopefully it won't fail
> like that again.
>
> It turned out that my script was checking for the day the reminder email
> gets sent (i.e. the day before the meeting) instead of the day of the
> meeting itself. For example, for the Carmarthen meeting, instead of
> checking for 3rd Tuesday, and sending the reminder email out on the day
> before, the script was checking if it was the 3rd Monday, and sending
> the reminder email on that day. This was obviously flawed, as of course
> this month the 1st fell on a Tuesday! The script has only gotten away
> with it before now, because the last time Tuesday fell on the 1st was
> May last year (i.e. before my script was born).
>
> The script now correctly checks whether the following day is meeting
> day, and it sends the reminder email accordingly.
>
> Once again I apologise for this error, and for the avoidance of doubt,
> THERE IS NO CARMARTHEN MEETING TOMORROW.
>
> Regards,
> Dafydd.
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