CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-app-engine
Innovation
Innovation

Reputation: 1534

Google Application Engine Run cron job

How I can set GAE cron job to run at specific date at specific time

Like 10th April at 12:20 minute.Please provide syntax for this use case.

How to set IST time zone.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (2)

lantius
lantius

Reputation: 1196

From the cron format documentation:

If you want more specific timing, you can specify the schedule as:

("every"|ordinal) (days) ["of" (monthspec)] (time)

Where:

ordinal specifies a comma separated list of "1st", "first" and so forth (both forms are ok) days specifies a comma separated list of days of the week (for example, "mon", "tuesday", with both short and long forms being accepted); "every day" is equivalent to "every mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun" monthspec specifies a comma separated list of month names (for example, "jan", "march", "sep"). If omitted, implies every month. You can also say "month" to mean every month, as in "1,8,15,22 of month 09:00". time specifies the time of day, as HH:MM in 24 hour time.

So you'd want something like:

schedule: 10 of april 12:20
timezone: Asia/Kolkata

Upvotes: 1

Chris Pushbullet
Chris Pushbullet

Reputation: 1069

Possible solutions:

1) Create a cronjob that runs once a minute. When the current time equals your desired time, run your code.

2) If the specific time is in the next 30 days, use a Task with the eta property set: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/tasks#Task

3) Use some external service to setup a webhook that gets called at the proper time, make your code run when the webhook is called.

Upvotes: 1

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