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sjaak ◴[18 Oct 24 16:19 UTC] No.41880845[source]▶

>>41872010 (OP) #

What is the use-case for such a function?

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keithwhor ◴[18 Oct 24 16:22 UTC] No.41880877[source]▶

Off the top of my head, a cron scheduler for a server that reads from a database and sets a timeout upon boot. Every time the server is reboot the timeouts are reinitialized (fail safe in case of downtime). If upon boot there’s a timeout > 25 days it’ll get executed immediately which is not the behavior you want.

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1. hinkley ◴[18 Oct 24 18:52 UTC] No.41882349[source]▶

>>41880877 #

This should be an interval with a lookup.

Every five seconds check for due dates sooner than 10 seconds from now and schedule them.

The longer a delay the higher the odds the process exits without finishing the work.

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