Forums Scripts & Popups Help running a function/alias every day at 11pm

Hi. I'm trying to run a function every day at 11pm but I'm not sure what the best way to do it is. Would I just make an endless timer with a delay of the number of seconds in a day, like:

timerDailyTimer 23:00 0 86400 { msg #testchannel today is $date }

Or is there a better way to trigger an event/function at a specific time every day?

Thanks!

Assuming that works for 24 hour days, it won't work for the 23 and 25 hour days when we go on/off daylight time. Another way to do it is to have the timer be created daily.

TimerDailyTimer 22:59 1 60 My_Alias msg #testchannel today is $!date

... where My_Alias displays its command, then runs the above timer command again. Also, the way your command behaves is that it evaluates $date into a string, then displays it 86400 seconds later. You should either use $!identifiername to delay evaluation, or else have My_Alias contain the message in its entirety. The alias should also have error checking, such as making sure you're still in #testchannel.

Thanks maroon. I didn't think you could create the same timer within a function triggered by that timer. Now that I think about it, once the function is called, the timer doesn't exist anymore so creating the timer in the function wouldn't actually overwrite it.. Or whatever, you know what I mean (hopefully).

At any rate, it's working now, thanks again!

The timer still exists during the execution of that timer.



Even if there were future repetitions of the timer, you can use the same timer name to redefine an existing timer into being anything you wish.