Hi,
Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> writes:

> The usefulness of a SCHEDULED delay I see together with a TODO and
> repeater to implement an _exception_ (to simplify: exception just for
> the first date, before the repetitions). For example
>
>   SCHEDULED: <2013-02-01 Fri +1w -3d>
>
> would mean: Usually start working on the entry earliest on the first
> day of the month except [2013-02-01 Fri] when work can not start
> before [2013-02-04 Mon]. It would start to show in the agenda on
> [2013-02-04 Mon], [2013-03-01 Fri], [2013-04-01 Mon], [2013-05-01
> Wed], [2013-06-01 Sat] etc. On let’s say [2013-02-05 Tue] it would be
> set to DONE and would change to:
>
>   SCHEDULED: <2013-03-01 Fri +1w>
>
> Note the automatically removed delay.
>
> Am I missing something?
>

I quite agree with you. It is also the way I understood it, with the
automatic removal of the -3d. 

Only a tiny glitch there, I suppose you guessed it was written

SCHEDULED: <2013-02-01 Fri +1m -3d>

and not 

SCHEDULED: <2013-02-01 Fri +1w -3d>

Because your description is about a monthly repeated event while the
example shows a weekly event.

It is really nothing but I think someone might find it confusing.

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