Subj : Re: Event Timing
To   : 2twisty
From : McDoob
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 05:42 pm

 2t>  Zi> But, do the Hourly events allow you to specify the exact minute on wh
 2t>  Zi> they should be run every hour?
 2t> 
 2t> I think I have a solution for this for Linux users -- and I'm sure you
 2t> coul set it up with task scheduler.
 2t> 
 2t> Set up a semaphore event for anything you want to trigger that
 2t> precisely, then use cron to "touch" the semaphore file.

Huh. I never even thought about this. You're not wrong, but that's not exactly right, either.

Let ./mis (and ./mutil) take care of Mystic. Don't ask the end user's OS to do it instead. That's a bad habit that programmers should avoid. I would pretend to know.

McDoob
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