[Fetaure Request] Add work days as a recurrence interval type

[tchamade61]

Currently, a recurrent task can be set to repeat every day, week, month or year. Would it be possible to add an additional interval type, say b for example, that would cause tasks to be regenerated only on work days? This would allow a user to create daily work tasks that do not recur on weekends, when the user is not at work.

As an example, assuming that Monday thru Friday are workdays and Saturdays and Sundays are weekends, I would like the ability to add a task like this:
arrive at work due:today rec:+1b

When the task is completed, the task would recur on the next work day instead of the next calendar day. In the example above, a task completed on Monday would recur on Tuesday, while a task completed on Friday would recur on Monday. As it stands now, using the rec:+1d tag generates 2 "extra" tasks on Saturday and Sunday that I do need because I am not at work.

It would be a nice touch to have the work day interval available in the threshold tag as well as the recurrent tag.

Thank you.

Also, thank you to all who have contributed to this project!

[VladimirMarkelov]

An interesting idea. I see it useful at times. Though, there is a big question: "How to determine what days to skip?".

The most interesting part is holidays. If you want to skip weekends, I guess you also want to skip days like Xmas. Some holidays fall on the same day every year (almost always because of rare case when an extra day-off is added thanks to the holiday happens on Tuesday or Thursday), but some are defined like "the second Monday of some month". Also we should not forget that people in different countries celebrate holidays often on different days, so providing a hard-coded rules does not look good. To make the task more difficult, sometimes a weekend is really a working day.

[tchamade61]

I agree that adding support for holidays would be a very challenging task. Since they occur less frequently than weekends, I was not considering holidays as part of the request. For my needs, the ability to skip weekends is adequate.

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[VladimirMarkelov]

Good point. Let's start with a simple case. It shouldn't be too hard.

[VladimirMarkelov]

I have published a new version 4.2.0 at crates.io - it should skip Saturdays and Sundays when you use b as a recurrence interval