Ask HN: API service to schedule events by day of week? 2 points by preetnation 10y ago ↗ HN Looking for an API service to help schedule events by day of week and time of day. Thoughts?
[–] Alupis 10y ago ↗ Good 'ol fashioned Cron will do the trick... [–] preetnation 10y ago ↗ fair option [–] Alupis 10y ago ↗ 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/ [–] preetnation 10y ago ↗ use case is for something similar to what MyFitnessPal does with user-specified reminders by time of week
[–] preetnation 10y ago ↗ fair option [–] Alupis 10y ago ↗ 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/ [–] preetnation 10y ago ↗ use case is for something similar to what MyFitnessPal does with user-specified reminders by time of week
[–] Alupis 10y ago ↗ 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/ [–] preetnation 10y ago ↗ use case is for something similar to what MyFitnessPal does with user-specified reminders by time of week
[–] preetnation 10y ago ↗ use case is for something similar to what MyFitnessPal does with user-specified reminders by time of week
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 20.2 ms ] threadidk 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/