Ask HN: API service to schedule events by day of week?

#1

Post by preetnation » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 10:18 PM UTC

Looking for an API service to help schedule events by day of week and time of day. Thoughts?

Re: Ask HN: API service to schedule events by day of week?

#2

Post by Alupis » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 10:21 PM UTC

Good 'ol fashioned Cron will do the trick...

Re: Ask HN: API service to schedule events by day of week?

#3

Post by preetnation » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 10:32 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #2

Good 'ol fashioned Cron will do the trick...

fair option

Re: Ask HN: API service to schedule events by day of week?

#4

Post by Alupis » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 11:25 PM UTC

preetnation wrote: post #3

Alupis wrote: post #2

Good 'ol fashioned Cron will do the trick...

fair option

otherwise, it seems overkill to need some public API to do this.

idk what language you're working in, but for local timing issues, Quartz Scheduler is pretty good (for JVM languages). It support cron syntax as well.

https://quartz-scheduler.org/

Re: Ask HN: API service to schedule events by day of week?

#5

Post by preetnation » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 12:19 AM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #4

preetnation wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fair option

otherwise, it seems overkill to need some public API to do this. idk what language you're working in, but for local timing issues, Quartz Scheduler is pretty good (for JVM languages). It support cron syntax as well. https://quartz-scheduler.org/

use case is for something similar to what MyFitnessPal does with user-specified reminders by time of week