From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-06-29T04:05:11+09:00
Subject: Re: clock-scheduled operations


On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:58 , Chad Perrin wrote:

> 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?

cron