I've got it scheduled to repeat every 86400 seconds (24*60*60) so once a day. I thought that it was supposed to keep the same start time like the book says but it has definitely been drifting - part of the task that's queued logs to a DB and I can see the timestamps there consistently drifting ~20 seconds later each day. I had another task originally setup to send out a daily email at 9AM and it's drifted to going out around 9:32AM over the last several months.
On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 1:52:31 PM UTC-6, Niphlod wrote: > > I don't exactly get how you scheduled the tasks and how are you expecting > them to run. > If you schedule a task to start at 10am and set a period of 24*60*60, the > task will be "requeued" to be executed at 10am. > As the book says, > > *The time period is not calculated between the END of the first round and > the START of the next, but from the START time of the first round to the > START time of the next cycle)* > > > > On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 5:10:38 PM UTC+1, Brian M wrote: >> >> Is there any way to keep the time at which recurring tasks run from >> drifting? I've got several daily tasks that over time go from running at >> say 10am to 10:30am - it seems like each consecutive run is 20 seconds or >> so behind the previous day's. Is this simply a matter of the next execution >> time being set based on the ending time of the current run rather than the >> starting time? If I want to better enforce running at a certain time daily >> do I need to resort to having a maintenance task run say once a week and >> reset the next run time of the daily tasks so they don't drift too far? I >> suppose that this isn't too much of an issue for tasks that run on a more >> regular basis like once a minute to process constantly updated queues, but >> for things that you want to run at a certain set time it's a bit annoying. >> >> Thanks >> Brian >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.
