This "README" document is (c) 2015 David Rook.

go-cron is (c) Robert Kosek, portions (c) 2015 David Rook - all rights reserved.

The program and related files in this repository are released under BSD 2-Clause License. License details are at the end of this document. Bugs/issues can be reported on github. Comments can be sent to hotei1352@gmail.com. "Thank you"s, constructive criticism and job offers are always welcome.

go-cron allows you to initiate and repeat tasks at regular intervals. It's similar in some ways to cron, but there are important differences. More detail about the difference will be given later, but first note that you can use the package in more than one way.

One method is to call it inside a long running program to perform some task such as refreshing an internal data structure or producing a status report at regular "wall-clock-time" specific intervals as opposed to just sleeping for a fixed time.

The other method is more similar to cron, where a "reminder" program is run at system startup. Tasks are performed by local functions and main() just schedules the tasks and goes to sleep indefinitely. With appropriate extensions the program can mail reminders, run security checks or anything you can write.

If you have a working go installation on a Unix-like OS:

go get github.com/hotei/go-cron

If you don't have go installed you can always download the git repository as a zipfile and extract it. If you just want to see what the package internals look like, take a look at this godoc.org link .

• Probably the biggest feature is the simplicty of the solution. It's easy to understand what the program does and to modify it for your needs.
• Tasks can be done every second if required, whereas cron has a minimum of one minute between tasks.
• Because of the one second resolution go-cron can waste CPU time if active events are scheduled at long intervals (once a month for example). You can customize the minimum delay between checks if desired.
• you can schedule tasks that are "shell" commands using os.exec

• None known

Mint 17.1 Linux on i7/2500 mhz 8 'core' (4+4HT) HP Envy Laptop
X11/R6
gnu g++ compiler gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
go 1.5rc1

• 2015-08-18 rebuilt with go 1.5rc1
  • added Travis builder testing
• 2013-04-19 forked go-cron from github.com/rk/go-cron

• [Source for hotei/go-cron on github] 3
• [Source for rk/go-cron on github] 9
• [go language reference] 1
• [go standard library package docs] 2
• [Excellent godoc howto by Nate Finch] 8
• [Go projects list(s)] 7

Comments can be sent to David Rook hotei1352@gmail.com Any issues/bugs can be mentioned in email to me or filed on github.

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The 'go-cron' go program/package and demo programs are distributed under the Simplified BSD License:

Copyright (c) Robert Kosek, portions (c) 2015 David Rook. All rights reserved.

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import "."


  This package implements a simplistic Cron Job system that calls functions and
  closures on given days/times. If you need events that fire more often than
  once a second, use time.Ticker or time.After instead. The event must be able
  to accept a Time object (though it doesn't have to use it).

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  Copyright 2011 Robert Kosek <thewickedflea@gmail.com>. All rights reserved.

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
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  The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those of the
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  or implied, of Robert Kosek.

 Portions (c) 2012-2015 David Rook see git blame for attribution

 This is my fork of github.com/rk/go-cron by Robert Kosek

  1)	Replaced -1 by any for readability improvement
  2)	Changed *time.Time to time.Time  WHY: pointer to time struct useful if you
  need to change something that gets back to the caller.  Not the case here. Otherwise
  go style (as I understand it) suggests not using pointers if not required.
  3)	Added cron_test.go example of usage
  4) 	Added yearly job (just for completeness)
  5)	Added a little more to docs
  6)	Unexport ANY --> any
  7)	Make resolution (CheckDelay) an exported variable

  A sample task looks like this:

  func mytask(t time.Time) {
	fmt.Printf("time = %s\n", t.String())
  }

  A skeletal main program that will run for at least a year looks like this:

  func main() {
  	NewDailyJob(any,any,5,mytask)
  	time.Sleep(366 * 24 * time.Hour)
  }

var (
    CheckDelay = time.Duration(1 * time.Second) // minimum delay between checks
)

func NewCronJob(month, day, weekday, hour, minute, second int8, task func(time.Time))

This function creates a new job that occurs at the given day and the given 24hour time. Any of the values may be -1 as an "any" match, so passing in a day of -1, the event occurs every day; passing in a second value of -1, the event will fire every second that the other parameters match.

func NewDailyJob(hour, minute, second int8, task func(time.Time))

NewDailyJob creates a job that fires daily at a specified time.

Take a vitamin pill reminder.

func NewMonthlyJob(day, hour, minute, second int8, task func(time.Time))

NewMonthlyJob creates a job that fires monthly at a given time on a given day.

Pay the rent on the 5th of the month.

func NewWeeklyJob(weekday, hour, minute, second int8, task func(time.Time))

NewWeeklyJob creates a job that fires on the given day of the week and time.

Go to spinning class at the Y on Tuesday.

func NewYearlyJob(month, day, hour, minute, second int8, task func(time.Time))

NewYearlyJob creates a job that fires yearly at a given time on a given month and day.

Birthday reminder.

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github.com/hotei/go-cron imports

	errors
	runtime
	sync
	sync/atomic
	syscall
	time
	unsafe

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