scheduling

[Mike Bonner]

Probably the easiest way would be to have a send loop running, and see if
any jobs (whatever you want to call it) are due yet.  If you keep the jobs
sorted you can check the next one in queue, and if its not time for it to
fire yet, none of them are, so loop.   If it IS time, keep checking the
list until you hit a job that isn't due yet. then loop again.


On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> 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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