Schedule Based On Day of Month, But Not Date

[Didgeridrew]

@supaeasy

So my goal is to create all-day calendar entries for every third friday of a month because this is when the paper trash is collected… I have made a script to automatically create calendar entries.

Do you actually need a script? Your problem is categorically different than the original post… OP wanted an annual repeat that accounted for the Month, Week index, and Day of the week.
The Repeat Monthy option in the “Add Event” dialog can handle what you are trying to do, and have it repeat forever:

@supaeasy

Also: could someone kindly explain what “[:10]” does?

This is one way to perform slicing based on index number. This is a basic method used in Python and, as such, is considered outside the scope of Home Assistant documentation. In this case it selects the first 10 elements of the datetime string so it returns some like 2024-03-10 instead of something like 2024-03-10T00:00:00-05:00. The calendar.create_event has been updated since the start of this thread to allow datetime date objects. Slicing will still work, but it isn’t the only option.

@supaeasy

ChatGPT had this solution, feels like this is it:

ChatGPT is a bullshit engine… and that’s exactly what it has given you.

action: calendar.create_event
data:
  summary: Papierabfuhr
  start_date: >
    {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
    {{ month_week_day(month, 3, 5)[:10] }}
  end_date: >
    {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
    {{ (month_week_day(month, 3, 5) | as_datetime | as_local + timedelta(days=1)).date() }}
target:
  entity_id: calendar.test