[TYPO3-english] scheduler task (only certain hours)

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

Stefan Franke wrote:
> Is there a way to have a scheduler task only be executed during the night? E.g. the scheduler is called by the cron job every hour, 24/7, but my particular task should only be executed every hour from 8pm to 4am. Is there some trick to achieve this?
> 
> (I'm using TYPO3 4.5.15)

This is possible to give a "cron" definition (first line as header for you):

# m     h       dom     mon     dow
17      *       *       *       *

This has to be entered as

17 * * * *

in the input field

This means every hour at xx:17

For your case, for instance every 15 minutes but only between midnight
and 4 AM this would be:

*/15 0-4 * * *

or another format would be

0,15,30,45 0-4 * * *

Just search Google for the different format of a cron command.

HTH

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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