scheduling

[Mike Kerner]

oh, wow.  Sorry, Bob, that wasn't what I meant.  I meant scheduling
messages like as in pendingMessages, like a CRON subsystem

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
wrote:

> I did some work in this regard in an app I called Conference Scheduler
> Lite. The big thing with date and time calculations is understanding that
> an event scheduled for 08:00 - 10:00 does NOT conflict with one from 10:00
> to 12:00. Also, someone staying in a room from the first to the third does
> NOT conflict with someone staying from the 3rd to the 5th. In other words,
> times and dates can touch without overlapping. Special case has to be used
> for this in any SQL queries.
>
> I also recently wrote a time calc function that can give you the
> difference between two times so that 12:00 to  13:00 produces 1:00. It's
> not a trivial thing to do. I ended up using the approach of converting
> values to seconds, doing the math then converting it back to
> hours:minutes:seconds again.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:35 , Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been messing around with scheduling events in LC, and have run into
> a
> > variety of things that make life harder.  Does anybody have a CRON/event
> > scheduling library for LC before I write the other 60% of one?
> >
> > Well, I'm probably simplifying the task - the other 85% of one?
> >
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-- 
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."