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`at`
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`at`

at — a timer that initiates an action at a given time, or regularly.

Synopsis

at (day, month, year, hour, minute, second, actions...)

Arguments

day: Restriction on the day of the month (1-31), or nil for none.
month: Restriction on the month of the year (1-12), or nil for none.
year: Restriction on the year (1994-2026), or nil for none.
hour: Restriction on the hour of the day (0-23), or nil for none.
minute: Restriction on the minute in the hour (0-59), or nil for none.
second: Restriction on the second in the minute (0-59), or nil for none.
actions: The actions to perform when the specified time arrives.

Returns

An integer number which may be used as the argument to cancel.

Description

This function specifies an action to be performed at a given time, or to occur regularly at certain times of the minute, hour, day, month or year. A restriction on a particular attribute of the time will cause at to fire only if that restriction is true.

A restriction may be any number in the legal range of that attribute, or a list of numbers in that range. Illegal values for the time will be normalized. For example, a time specified as July 0, 1994 00:00:00 will be treated as June 30, 1994 00:00:00. If nil is specified for any attribute of the time, this implies no restriction and at will fire cyclically at every legal value for that attribute.

For Gamma to notice a timer, you must make a call to next_event. To notice repeating timers, the call to next_event can be used with a call to while(t).

Example

//To print "hello" at 12:00 noon on June 2, 1994:
at(2,6,1994,12,0,0,#princ("hello\n"));

//To print "hello" at 12:00 noon on the first day
//of every month in 1994:
at(1,nil,1994,12,0,0,#princ("hello\n"));

//To print "hello" every half minute at 30 seconds
//and on the minute on the 1st and 15th of every month
//except July and August, for any year:
at(list(1,15), list(1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,11,12),list(0,30), #(princ "hello\n"));

//To print "hello" every 10 seconds during the hour
//of 3:00pm every December 21st.
at(21,12,nil,15,nil,list(0,10,20,30,40,50), #princ("hello\n"));

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