Running at scheduled task every minute but at 30 second into the minute

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Using ACF, I was able to use a cron tab to run a task every minute, but have it run at 30 seconds into the minute. I’m trying to stagger a couple of tasks that I want to run once every 60 seconds, but I don’t want them to all start at the same time. I want to stagger the trigger time.

This was the cron expression I’m using in ACF: 30 * * ? * * *

Is there a way to duplicate this behavior in Lucee 5.3.9.133?

2

Try this:

schedule
	task="Every minute starting 30 seconds in"
	action="update"
	operation="HTTPRequest"
	interval="60"
	startdate=Now().DateFormat( "yyyy-mm-dd" )
	starttime="00:00:30"
	url="http://mytaskUrl/";

The key attribute is the starttime.

3

Thanks!

I hadn’t seen any examples showing HH:MM:SS as being valid for the starttime so I didn’t know that would work. This is exactly what I need!

Do you know if you can combine endtime with starttime if to run something that only runs between certain hours of the day? For example, if I wanted something to run from 8am to 5pm, could I use:

schedule
	task="Every minute starting 30 seconds in"
	action="update"
	operation="HTTPRequest"
	interval="60"
	startdate=Now().DateFormat( "yyyy-mm-dd" )
	starttime="08:00:00"
	endtime="17:00:00"
	url="http://mytaskUrl/";
4

Just tested and yes that should work.

5

Awesome! Thanks!