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Re: Scheduled Tasks

Posted by Brian Sanders on November 20, 2001 at 4:47 PM

One possible approach you could take would be to store a "next scheduled run time" in your data file. For example, if you have a task that is to run every Thursday at 9:00am, the next run time would be Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:00am.

Then, for each task, compare the current date/time to the next scheduled run time. If the current time is equal to or greater than the next scheduled run time, do two things:

• Update the next scheduled run time to Thursday, November 29 2001 9:00am
  
• Start the scheduled task.
  

If this isn't a viable alternative, we'll see what else we can come up with.

• Figured it out!...Here's what I did Hiran November 21, 2001 at 3:47 AM (5)
  • Re: Running a Java app in the background Brian Sanders November 21, 2001 at 1:01 PM (1)
    • Thnx Hiran November 22, 2001 at 12:26 AM (0)
  • Scheduling Matt Gerrans November 21, 2001 at 5:15 AM (2)
    • Thoughts Hiran November 22, 2001 at 12:25 AM (0)
    • LOL (eom) Chin Loong November 21, 2001 at 6:16 AM (0)