Max delay used to be something like 32000 ticks. (We have an old //comment
from 2006 that thinks so anyway)
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Dave Nasralla via 4D_Tech <
4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Ran into an odd issue. Like many of you have have a Cron Daemon to run
> daily tasks. Usually I have it wake up at least once a day.
>
> In one newer system, there was a job that only had to run once a
> month. I tried to delay the process for 30 days it is fails - like
> does not delay AT ALL.
>
> eg:
> C_LONGINT($Delay_vl)
> $Delay_vl:=30*24*60*60*60
> //Days*Hours*Min*Sec*Ticks
>
> DELAY PROCESS(Current process;$Delay_vl)
> ALERT("Hello World")
>
> This is true for v15.4, v16R2 (on mac).
> The docs say it should be a real, but it fails whether a real or long
> integer.
>
> Am I missing something? (It does work as expected for shorter times.)
>
> dave
>
> --
> David Nasralla
> Clean Air Engineering
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