Recurring Meeting Date Generator
Generate N future meeting dates from a recurrence rule.
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How the Recurring Meeting Date Generator works
The Recurring Meeting Date Generator produces a whole series of future meeting dates spaced by a business-day interval, so no occurrence lands on a weekend or public holiday. Give it a start date, the number of occurrences, and the interval in business days, and it walks the series forward — skipping weekends and the holidays on your chosen calendar at every step.
A fixed calendar-day interval drifts: add ten calendar days repeatedly and roughly every third occurrence lands on a weekend, because ten is not a multiple of seven, and a public holiday in the run compounds the drift. Counting the interval in business days instead guarantees every meeting falls on a day people are working. The first occurrence is rolled forward to a working day if the start itself is a weekend, and each later date is counted as business days from the one before it.
The value is seeing the entire run at once rather than one recurrence at a time — clashes with a holiday week or a bunched-up stretch after a long weekend become visible before the invites go out. Set the workweek pattern and holiday country to match the people who actually have to attend, and add any company shutdown as a custom closure.
Worked example
A project kicking off Wednesday July 1 with ten checkpoints five business days apart, on a Monday-to-Friday week, lands on July 8, 15, 22, 29 and onward — every occurrence a weekday, none dragged onto a weekend, with any public holiday in the window pushing the affected date to the next working day. The same cadence set as a calendar-day "every 5 days" rule would have marched straight through the weekends.
Frequently asked questions
What does the interval mean — business days or calendar days?
Business days. Each occurrence is counted as N business days from the previous one, skipping weekends and the holidays on the calendar you select, so an irregular cadence stays on the working week instead of drifting onto days off.
What happens to a meeting that would fall on a holiday?
It moves to the next working day. Because the series is counted in business days on your chosen holiday calendar, both weekends and public holidays are skipped automatically — you never have to drag an occurrence off a day off by hand.
Why generate the whole series instead of just the next date?
Because a single next date hides whether occurrence six collides with a holiday week or bunches against another meeting after a long weekend. Laying out every date up front lets you spot the clashes before sending invites and gives attendees fixed dates they can plan leave and travel around.
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