From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-06-29T03:58:41+09:00
Subject: clock-scheduled operations

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Obviously, scheduling something to happen every foo seconds is easy.
What is a reasonably performant, simple way to schedule an operation to
occur at a particular time of day (preferably specified by a particular
time zone)?

The first thing that comes to my mind is checking Time.now, checking the
time between that and the desired time of day, then spawn a thread that
sleeps for that length of time (because I need the program to do other
things in the meantime).  Is there a better way to do this?

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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