Setting a calendar reminder for the last full weekend in a month?

Feek · 22 Sep 2018 at 09:18

I've been struggling to do this. I want to set up a recurring entry in my calendar for the last full weekend in a particular month.

Any idea how it can be done? Either iOS on Mac OS.

Ta.

Valo · 22 Sep 2018 at 14:58

Have you had a look at a Siri Shortcut? There possibly could be a way of maybe doing it with that.

Feek · 24 Sep 2018 at 12:37

I've just spoken to Apple support. It can't be done.

Chris1712 · 24 Sep 2018 at 13:33

What? They're wrong. Go and create an event on the last Sunday of this month, set it to repeat monthly based on the day (Sunday) et voila?

Feek · 24 Sep 2018 at 13:47

Chris1712 said:
What? They're wrong. Go and create an event on the last Sunday of this month, set it to repeat monthly based on the day (Sunday) et voila?

It needs to be a two day event, the last full weekend, ie the Saturday and Sunday of the month.

Chris1712 · 24 Sep 2018 at 14:03

Feek said:
It needs to be a two day event, the last full weekend, ie the Saturday and Sunday of the month.

Why's that? If the Sunday is the last of that month, so must the preceding Saturday be aswell. Set the reminder to -24h to show the alert earlier?

If you really can't do it manually then maybe a quick Python script to generate a dynamic .ics file?

Feek · 24 Sep 2018 at 14:09

I want the entire weekend to be blocked out on my calendar so although selecting the Sunday and setting an early reminder would sort of work, it's far from an ideal situation. That's one of the many things I've tried already.

Regarding a Python script - I wouldn't know where to start.