Holiday Schedule

[drifting]

Hi,
Perhaps I am missing something here, but on the earlier V5 you used to be able to put the day as a "*", and a date of the "25", and the month "Dec". So that it would auto each year. However now on V6 it seems you have to put a year in?

Thanks Paul.

[sysadmin]

Well, yes... and no.

There are in fact two timer panels in V6.   Recurring and Holidays.   Recurring are the old timers we've always had.   So, for example, Xmas recurs every 25th December and you would usually use a recurring timer to set it.   Holidays, on the other hand, are for non-recurring timers, or events which do not happen at the same time every year.   Examples of these would be Ramadan, Diwali, Easter and, of course, the Xmas office party!  These timers are "one shot", they don't recur.   For these you specify a year.   For recurring timers you don't.

Hope that all makes sense