Hi,
I need a library which allowes me to define and handle recurring events. Of course, I
thought that Boost would help me out by providing such a handy-dandy class out of the
box.
Btw, by recurring events I mean events which can be configured to occur for example:
every monday and thursday, last friday in month, every second tuesday, every friday
the 13th, and so on... Much like crontab or MS-Outlook's recurrence appointments.
Unfortunately, there is no such class in the Date-Time library. I don't know, but
maybe such a class doesn't fit in a library?
Anyhow, I think it would be really nice to say something like:
recurring_event<daily> wakeMeUp("09:45");
recurring_event<weekly> trainingDays(monday,thursday);
recurring_event<weekly> cleaningDay(tuesday,every_2nd);
recurring_event<monthly> receiveSalary(friday,last_day_in_month);
recurring_event<yearly> santa(christmas_day);
Does anyone have an idea or hint how to implement such a class (maybe out of different
boost-classes)? Otherwise I know one way to go, based on the paper "Recurring Events"
written by Martin Fowler and available on his site martinfowler.com.
Btw, when I searched the archive I saw that at least one other user (Dylan) had a
similar request/desire for such a utility.
/Tommy
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