I want to use PeriodicAgent and do something in backround, but the default interval for PeriodAgent is 30 mins, which is too long for my app. Is there any way (in wp7.0 or above) to change the interval?
Thank you in advance.
-Aaron
No, there is not. Even the 30 min interval is not guaranteed.
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My Oracle DBA have setup a task with following repeat_interval:
Start Date :"30/JAN/20 08:00AM"
Repeat_interval: "FREQ=DAILY; INTERVAL=0; BYMINUTE=15"
Can I ask what is "Interval=0" means?
Does it means this task will run daily from 8AM, and will repeat every 15 mins until success?
I tried to get the answer from Google, but what I find is what is Interval=1, but nothing for 0.
So would be great if anyone can share me some light here.
Thanks in advance!
INTERVAL is the number of increments of the FREQ value between executions. I believe in this case that a value of 0 or 1 would be the same. The schedule as shown would execute once per day (FREQ=DAILY), at approximately 15 minutes past a random hour (BYMINUTE=15, but BYHOUR and BYSECOND are not set).
Schedule has nothing to do with whether or not the previous execution succeeded or not. Start Date is only the date at which the job was enabled, not when it actually starts processing.
If you want it to run every 15 minutes from the moment you enable it, you should set as follows:
FREQ=MINUTELY; INTERVAL=15
If you want it to run exactly on the quarter hour, then this:
FREQ=MINUTELY; BYMINUTE=0,15,30,45; BYSECOND=0
If you want it to run every day at 8am, then this:
FREQ=DAILY; BYHOUR=8; BYMINUTE=0; BYSECOND=0
my issue is that I want to be able to get two time stamps and compare if the second (later taken) one is less than 59 minutes away from the first one.
Following this thread Compare two dates with JavaScript
the date object may do the job.
but first thing i am not happy with is that it takes the time from my system.
is it possible to get the time from some public server or something?
cause there always is a chance that the system clock gets manipulated within the time stamps, so that would be too unreliable.
some outside source would be great.
then i am not too sure how to get the difference between 2 times (using 2 date objects).
many issue that may pop up:
time being something like 3:59 and 6:12
so just comparing minutes would give the wrong idea.
so we consider hours too.
biut there the issue with the modulo 24.
day 3 23:59 and day 4 0:33 wouldnt be viewed proper either.
so including days too.
then the modulo 30 thing, even though that on top changes month for month.
so month and year to be included as well.
so we would need the whole date, everything from current year to second (because second would be nice too, for precision)
and comparing them would require tons of if clauses for year, month, etc.
do the date objects have some predfeined date comparision function that actually keeps all these things in mind (havent even mentioned leap years yet, have I)?
time would be very important cause exactly at the 59 minutes mark (+-max 5 seconds wouldnt matter but getting rmeitely close to 60 is forbidden)
a certain function would have to be used that without fail closes a website.
script opens website at mark 0 min, does some stuff rinse and repeat style and closes page at 59 min mark.
checking the time like every few seconds would be smart.
Any good ideas how to implement such a time comparision that doesnt take too more computer power yet is efficient as in new month starting and stuff doesnt mess it up?
You can compare the two Date times, but when creating a date time there is a parameter of DateTime(value) which you can use.
You can use this API to get the current UTC time which returns a example JSON array like this:
{
"$id":"1",
"currentDateTime":"2019-11-09T21:12Z",
"utcOffset":"00:00:00",
"isDayLightSavingsTime":false,
"dayOfTheWeek":"Saturday",
"timeZoneName":"UTC",
"currentFileTime":132178075626292927,
"ordinalDate":"2019-313",
"serviceResponse":null
}
So you can use either the currentFileTime or the currentDateTime return from that API to construct your date object.
Example:
const date1 = new Date('2019-11-09T21:12Z') // time when I started writing this answer
const date2 = new Date('2019-11-09T21:16Z') // time when I finished writing this answer
const diff = new Date(date2-date1)
console.log(diff.toTimeString()) // time it took me to write this
Please keep in mind that due to network speeds, the time API will be a little bit off (by a few milliseconds)
I was wanting to write a program in C that I can simply type in the hours that I worked for each day of the week, including time on break, that will take my input and return the total number of hours I have worked for that week. It's dumb, I know, but I am not sure how to do the math for this regarding time on the clock.
Thank you
At beginning of work: get the current date, make it into seconds.
At end of work: get the current date, make it into seconds.
So working seconds = end seconds - beginning seconds
Then you'll just have to make those into hours.
I have a spring application that uses quartz cron trigger. I have given the following for frequency 0 0/20 * * * ?.....once every 20 min. But i want the first one to run immediately. Right now, when I start the application, it runs after 20 min. I was hoping it would run asap and then after 20 min.
Thanks in advance.
It sounds like you want to use an interval trigger (SimpleTrigger in Quartz can do the job).
The CronTrigger wants you to specify the minutes at which to run.
So your trigger schedule says: start at 0 minutes, and run every 20 minutes after that until the hour is over. Then start at 0 again.
But with the SimpleTrigger, you say - start now and run every 20 minutes.
Here is a tutorial on SimpleTrigger:
http://quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.x/tutorials/tutorial-lesson-05
Here is a tutorial on CronTrigger:
http://quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger
You don't need CRON expression (and Quartz at all!) to run given code every 20 minutes. Just use fixed rate (Spring built-in):
#Scheduled(fixedRate=20 * 60 * 1000)
That's it! By default first invocation happens immediately, second after 20 minutes. Since Spring 3.2 you can even say initialDelay=10000 to run for the first time after exactly 10 seconds.
If you really want to use Quartz, check out SimpleTrigger.
I need to use a customized Periodic Task in Windows Phone 8. I have read from the below link that it runs every 30 minutes.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202942(v=vs.105).aspx
So, I am looking for an option to customize this time. Say, I want to run the Periodic Task every 15 Seconds or 20 Seconds.
Is this possible?
That is not possible. Every 30min is the lowest interval.
If you dont release the code on the market you can do this....
DateTime lastrun;
IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings.TryGetValue<DateTime>("lastrun", out lastrun);
if (DateTime.Now.Subtract(lastrun).TotalMinutes < 60) // 60 minutes, so run every hour
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Too soon, stopping.");
NotifyComplete();
return;
}
//add proper code for removing old value, etc.
IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings.Add("lastrun", DateTime.Now);
// Launch the task in 6 minutes
ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest("task", TimeSpan.FromMinutes(6));