From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-06-29T04:06:53+09:00
Subject: Re: clock-scheduled operations

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

There is: Cron jobs on *NIX or Task Scheduler on Windows. You have no
guarantee that your program is running, and Cron/Task Scheduler can
run tasks that *have* to occur, even after the original time has
passed.


-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

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