For the original question, asking about Windows XP (and Windows 7): Windows Task Scheduler For command-line usage, you can schedule with the AT command. For newer Microsoft OS versions, Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8, look at the schtasks command line utility. If using PowerShell, the Scheduled Tasks Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell are made for … Read more
According to Java Concurrency in Practice: Timer can be sensitive to changes in the system clock, ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor isn’t. Timer has only one execution thread, so long-running task can delay other tasks. ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor can be configured with any number of threads. Furthermore, you have full control over created threads, if you want (by providing ThreadFactory). Runtime … Read more
The task must be configured in two steps. First you create a simple task that start at 0:00, every day. Then, you go in Advanced… (or similar depending on the operating system you are on) and select the Repeat every X minutes option for 24 hours. The key here is to find the advanced properties. … Read more
You have */30 in the minutes specifier – that means every minute but with a step of 30 (in other words, every half hour). Since cron does not go down to sub-minute resolutions, you will need to find another way. One possibility, though it’s a bit of a kludge(a), is to have two jobs, one … Read more
If you’re looking for something lightweight checkout schedule: import schedule import time def job(): print(“I’m working…”) schedule.every(10).minutes.do(job) schedule.every().hour.do(job) schedule.every().day.at(“10:30”).do(job) while 1: schedule.run_pending() time.sleep(1) Disclosure: I’m the author of that library.
One solution that I have employed is to do this: 1) Create a custom management command, e.g. python manage.py my_cool_command 2) Use cron (on Linux) or at (on Windows) to run my command at the required times. This is a simple solution that doesn’t require installing a heavy AMQP stack. However there are nice advantages … Read more