scheduling

[Mike Kerner]

This doesn't work well in a single-threaded environment.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
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."