everyOneHundredMinutes() will it work every 100 minutes?

[M-Shahbaz]

There's a function in description:

everyFiveHundredThirtySevenMinutes()

So will it work on every five hundred thirty seven minutes?

Let's say I want to run task every 100 minutes.
Will run every 100 minutes? e.g: if first time it runs at 00:00 then next would be at 01:40
everyOneHundredMinutes()

Or could be great if possible:
everyMinutes('100')

Thanks,

[PabloKowalczyk]

Hello,
short answer: no, long answer: calling ->everyOneHundredMinutes() will produce expression */100 * * * * with these run dates:

| Example run dates                                        |
| #1                   | 2020-06-28 08:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #2                   | 2020-06-28 09:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #3                   | 2020-06-28 10:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #4                   | 2020-06-28 11:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #5                   | 2020-06-28 12:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |

as you can see it is definitely not every 100 minutes. It is not a bug, this is how Cron works. Probably word every is confusing, because it is really every only in some cases, like 15 minutes, 20 minutes or 30 minutes, but in other cases it is not every, for example calling everyFortyMinutes will produce there run dates:

| Example run dates                                        |
| #1                   | 2020-06-28 08:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #2                   | 2020-06-28 09:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #3                   | 2020-06-28 09:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #4                   | 2020-06-28 10:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #5                   | 2020-06-28 10:40:00 Europe/Warsaw |

You can check task's run dates, and other information, by calling Crunz's task:debug command.

[M-Shahbaz]

How can we have every 100 minutes with crunz
In cron it can be possible with splitting into two tasks e.g: https://stackoverflow.com/a/247643/1865829

[PabloKowalczyk]

You can pass Cron expression to task, see https://github.com/lavary/crunz#the-classic-way

[rogerzanelato]

@PabloKowalczyk Can you see a way of achieving it with days?

I would like a job to be executed every X days of the year. If I use a cron expression like this 0 0 */3 * * my job can be executed twice in a row when a new month start.

| Simulating with Dragonmantank\CronExpression             |
| #1                   | 2020-08-22 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #2                   | 2020-08-25 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #3                   | 2020-08-28 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #4                   | 2020-08-31 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #5                   | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |

This example is using three days, but in my real use case it could be any valid day number.

Thanks,

[PabloKowalczyk]

Hello @rogerzanelato, what about 0 0 1-30/3 * *?

[rogerzanelato]

Hello @rogerzanelato, what about 0 0 1-30/3 * *?

Hello @PabloKowalczyk, sorry for the late answer!

Unfortunately it didn't work, I tested with this expression and it skips the 31th.

| Simulating with Dragonmantank\CronExpression             |
| #1                   | 2020-08-22 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #2                   | 2020-08-25 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |
| #3                   | 2020-08-28 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw | 
| #4                   | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 Europe/Warsaw |

But it's okay, I don't think it's something possible with conventional Cron anyway, I think I'll have to handle it in my code. Thank you!

[PabloKowalczyk]

No problem, thanks.