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Started by mike4 November 02, 2012 12:12 PM

1 comment, last by NightCreature83 11 years, 6 months ago

mike4

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November 02, 2012 12:12 PM

Hi
how to do something only once a month? C++ cross platform Windows/Mac/Linux.
Many thanks in advance
Michael

Saruman

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November 02, 2012 12:15 PM

You use the API the platform gives you for task scheduling.. i.e. for Windows you would use the TaskScheduler with TASK_TRIGGER_MONTHLY. There really isn't a cross platform manner to do this.

NightCreature83

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November 02, 2012 01:38 PM

And on linux you would use cron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

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