Time of day as relevance?

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Is it possible to use clock time as relevance in a task or group?

I have a task that starts a service if it is stopped.
But I would like to only have the task be started at night and not at day time.

2

Yes we can. This took me bit of time to figure out, hope it’s helpful.

// Get the local computer's time_of_day
q: time of time (local time zone) of now
A: 10:33:09
T: 1.473 ms
I: singular time of day

// True only when the local time is before 6am or after 10pm
q: exists (time of time (local time zone) of now) whose (it < time_of_day "06:00:00" or it > time_of_day "22:00:00")
A: False
T: 0.993 ms
I: singular boolean

// True only when the local time is after 9am and before 5pm
q: exists (time of time (local time zone) of now) whose (it > time_of_day "09:00:00" and it < time_of_day "17:00:00")
A: True
T: 0.490 ms
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Nice! Thank you :slight_smile:

4

There is an alternative to using relevance for a Task (not for a Group). When you take action, on the Execution tab you can choose Run Between and enter something like 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. This should restrict your service restart to after hours. We use this regularly to restrict actions to a service window.

See the Execution Tab documentation.

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