[Zope] ZScheduler

Bill Anderson bill@libc.org
Wed, 17 May 2000 18:21:32 -0600


Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Karl Lewin wrote:
> > What sort of scheduling options would be "nice to have" in a scheduling
> > product?
> 
> 1. The ability to have a method called at a certain DateTime
> eg: next Tuesday, at 5pm GMT
> 
> 2. The ability to have a method executed every x, where x is a period of
> time.
> eg: every 2 hours
> 
> 3. The ability to have a method executed every x, starting and y and
> finished at z, where x is a period of time, y is a  DateTime object and
> z is a DateTime object that may be omitted if the process is nto to
> terminate.
> eg: every Tuesday at 4pm, starting May 20th, ending December 31st
>     every Wednesday at 5pm GMT from now onwards.
> 
> Obviously the more flexible the expression of time periods and dates,
> especially in the last option (for example: every other Tuesday starting
> today and ending next week would be nice ;-), the better :-)


I would add: something along the lines of: every first and third
tuesday of the month. To this list.