Anyway to set an event for the fifth Monday of the month?

Question

I have an event that happens rarely. Is there anyway to set an event for the fifth Monday of the month?

Answer 1

Hi Kevin,
This should be similar to behaviour in my response to this thread, but iCal seems a bit off on this one. If you attempt to set an event on the 5th Monday iCal adds events to the first Monday on the month after if the month only has four weeks. I'd say this is a bug in iCal.
Try the script below which should add an event to the 5th Monday only to see what I mean:
(Copy blue text into Script Editor (Applications > Applescript > Script Editor) , press Run and follow prompts.)
tell application "iCal"
set myCal to first calendar whose title is (item 1 of (choose from list (title of (every calendar) as list) with prompt "Choose calendar"))
set myName to text returned of (display dialog "What is the event's name?" default answer "5th Monday of month?")
set myStart to my date "Monday, January 30, 2006 10:00:00"
set myEnd to myStart + 1 * hours
make new event at the end of events of myCal with properties {summary:myName, start date:myStart, end date:myEnd, recurrence:"FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=5MO"}
end tell
Best wishes
John M