Re: Timed events

[Michael Barton]

from localtime(3)
      struct tm *localtime(const time_t *timep);
      struct tm {
               ...
               int     tm_hour;        /* hours */
               ...
               int     tm_wday;        /* day of the week */
               int     tm_yday;        /* day in the year */
               ...
       };
So I see it going something like this...
in update_handler, you can pick some pulse to stick your code in.
Probably something that doesn't run all that often, like area updating.

{
 static int last_ran_this = 0;
 struct tm *times = localtime(&current_time);
 if (times->tm_wday == 1
   && times->tm_hour == 0
   && last_ran_this != times->tm_yday)
 {
   last_ran_this = times->tm_yday;
   .. do your thing here ..
 }
}

See, we keep track of the last day of the year this was ran on in 
last_ran_this, so the code won't execute twice on the same day.  Then we just 
check the tm structure for day of the week 1 (monday), hour 0 (midnight).
Er, assuming you meant midnight as in monday morning, otherwise adjust 
accordingly.

--Palrich.