Thanks Niphlod! I've been doing the first option - just having the task's first step be to check the time and quick return if it is outside of the desired time of day, but that seemed inelegant since it's then hard-coded and more of a hassle to maintain. Maybe I'll have to try out option #2.
On Friday, May 3, 2013 1:54:40 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: > > whoopsie, a small "bugfix" of my post (edits in *red "italic"*) > > On Friday, May 3, 2013 8:23:00 PM UTC+2, Niphlod wrote: >> >> >> So, you have 2 "paths" to follow: >> - code your task to return *immediately* without doing nothing if >> request.now is between 6pm and 8am >> - use another task that will run at, let's say, 2am, to schedule another >> task for the *current* day. >> >> in this case you'd schedule "schedule_a_day_task" as *start_time = today >> at 8am, stop_time = today at 6pm* repeats=0, period = 60*60*24 and you'd >> be sure that it will take care of queueing every day a task >> (the_other_task) that does the work between 8am and 6pm. >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
