Events at Midnight

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Giulio Petrucci

Hi there,

I need my application to be notified when it's midnight. How can I do
it? (Someone suggested me to use a timer rising an event every
minute...please, telle me there is some other way!).

Thanks in advance,
Giulio
 
I need my application to be notified when it's midnight. How can I do it?
(Someone suggested me to use a timer rising an event every
minute...please, telle me there is some other way!).
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That's certainly the way I would do it...

What issue do you have with this...?
 
Hi there,

I need my application to be notified when it's midnight. How can I do
it? (Someone suggested me to use a timer rising an event every
minute...please, telle me there is some other way!).

Thanks in advance,
Giulio
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When you application is started, you could calculate remaining
milliseconds until midnight, and then start a timer with that
calculated value.
 
Hi Mark,

Mark Rae ha scritto:
What issue do you have with this...?
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The idea to have a timer polling every minute sounds a bit "stressing"
to me... ;-)
But, really, nothing bad with this approach... I was just hoping there
was some system to "hook" the System clock.

Thanks,
Giulio
 
Giulio Petrucci said:
Hi there,

I need my application to be notified when it's midnight. How can I do it?
(Someone suggested me to use a timer rising an event every
minute...please, telle me there is some other way!).

Thanks in advance,
Giulio
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Has your application anything else to do while waiting for midnight? If not,
just schedule your application to get started at midnight using the system
scheduler.

Willy.
 
I have implemented several of these type of applications to run throughout
the night. I setup Scheduler with a series of Scheduled tasks and it runs
all the reports and then places them on a network drive for access by
everyone who needs them, and even emails them to alert them that the reports
are now there.

Ron
 
The idea to have a timer polling every minute sounds a bit "stressing" to
me... ;-)
Why...?

But, really, nothing bad with this approach... I was just hoping there was
some system to "hook" the System clock.
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There is - it's called a Timer... :-)
 
Giulio Petrucci said:
Hi Mark,

The idea to have a timer polling every minute sounds a bit "stressing" to
me... ;-)
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The OS is constantly polling things. All things that are clock-based are on
a poll-for-time basis. Even if the OS offered a time-based hook, internally
it would be a poll-for-time implementation.

Jon
 
Jon Davis said:
The OS is constantly polling things. All things that are clock-based are
on a poll-for-time basis. Even if the OS offered a time-based hook,
internally it would be a poll-for-time implementation.

Jon
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Could you set up a Scheduled Task to simply run the program at midnight?
 
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