Re: [POLL] Dealing with +1m/y repeaters when jumping to impossible date (should 05-31 +1m be 07-01 or 06-30?)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de> writes:
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> +1m! is awkward - what if [2024-05-12 +1m!]?
>
> You are right. I have not really spent time to think about a nice
> syntax. But I think it needs to be encoded in the increment part, not
> in the date part (because after the first increment, the information
> that we want the last day of each month would be lost; and always
> using yyyy-(mm+1)--1 also seems a bit awkward).

It does not have to be lost. We can adjust the repeater function to
handle negative dates/months specially, so that

[2024-05--1 +1m] -> [2024-06--1 +1m]

> So maybe "+1mx" or some other way to encode "go to last day of next
> month" directly into the increment?

How does it make my example with [2024-05-12 +1m!] any less awkward?

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