setting up a timer w/pendingmessages

[Monte Goulding]

send myMessage to me in 1800 seconds

Cheers

Monte

> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> This ought to be brain-dead simple, but I cannot for the life of me get 
> this to work. I have a stack that needs to run itself at set times of 
> the day. The intervals are large and fixed, that is there is a specific 
> clock time involved, not just an interval.
> 
> For example, I need the stack to be aware of the time of day when it 
> opens and initialize itself. That part is easy.
> 
> Then I need the stack to send out a request for data every half hour 
> through a simple script which is working fine, so all we need is the 
> timer. So that is on the half-hour and hour as follows:
> 
> 9, 9:30,10, 10:30, ... all the way to 4PM.
> 
> Now, the problem is "send" works great in cases where you need to 
> "poll" on a regular basis or for event control. However I don't  need 
> that at all. Ideally I would want to create 13 messages (13 half-hour 
> intervals with set times) to start the script.
> 
> It does not seem possible (at least the way I've done it) to "stuff" 
> the time into the item of pendingmessages and let it go. In other 
> words, I would ideally love to open the stack, get the time, have the 
> 13 messages "popped" into the pendingmessages and off we go.
> 
> So what have I missed? How embarrassed am I going to be at how simple 
> this is?
> 
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