send in 24-hours

2011-09-08 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello, Two parts to my quandary, both relating to a school-chime stack I'm making -- it plays a chime sound-file at hourly-intervals (more or less) every weekday. First, I recall reading once a warning about overly long send values. In my stack's case, the send A in X seconds values are either

Re: send in 24-hours

2011-09-08 Thread Bill Vlahos
Nicholas, I don't think there are any specific concerns about very long send it times other than the minor ones I'm writing here. 1. You will have a problem when Daylight Savings time kicks in and out because it is counting the seconds not actually paying attention to what time it is. 2.

Re: send in 24-hours

2011-09-08 Thread stephen barncard
Here's a technique that I used that provides very accurate and dependable long period timer use 'send in time' with SHORT timings to check the current time. then compare the number obtained against your desired timeout value. It could even be a list of values each being a trigger for an event.