You should perhaps be doing this a cron job on your operating system. Have one cron to start the task at a particular time and second one to terminate it at the required end time . Ashok On 2 May 2013 09:54, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
Programmers, what algorithm would you use to check that a given time (current timestamp in 24hr) is within a preset start and end times and if so, do specific stuff?
Scenario:
StartTime = 0600 EndTime = 1800
TimeNow = 0950
An algorithm like
If TimeNow >= StartTime and <= EndTime then allow
would work
However, this will not work if the Start/End time spans across 2 days:
StartTime = 1800 EndTime = 0600
TimeNow = 0550
Using the logic will fail yet 0550 is logically within the preset timeframe
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