Quite Confusing Delay Schedule

[alur222]

Hi Max, good job!

But can you please elaborate on this?:

The date object will be updated in the order that is specified.
 For example, if you set the job to run in 1 year, an on year 2037, the year will be 2037. 
However, if you set the job to run on year 2037, and in 1 year, the year will be 2038.

Do u mean that these jobs are not the same?
1

Jobs.add("sendReminderEmail", "john@smith.com", "The future is here!", {
    in: {
        days: 1,
        hours: 13
    }, 
    on: {
        minute: 13,
        year: 2037
    }
});

2

Jobs.add("sendReminderEmail", "john@smith.com", "The future is here!", {
    on: {
        days: 1,
        hours: 13
    }, 
    in: {
        minute: 13,
        year: 2037
    }
});

Didn't try this though but it confused me while reading the instructions.

Thanks in advance.

[msavin]

Hey man - thanks for the interest.

In the example that you used, it would be the same because there are no conflicting options.

However, in this case, there year would become 2037.

Jobs.add("sendReminderEmail", "john@smith.com", "The future is here!", {
    on: {
        days: 1,
        hours: 13,
        year: 2036
    }, 
    in: {
        minute: 13,
        year: 1 
    }
});

But in this one, it would be 2036:

Jobs.add("sendReminderEmail", "john@smith.com", "The future is here!", {
    in: {
        minute: 13,
        year: 1 
    },
    on: {
        days: 1,
        hours: 13,
        year: 2036
    }, 
});

However, it maybe best to omit that part from the instructions. The thing is, I'm planning to enable functions as an input, so that's where it might get tricky:

Jobs.add("sendReminderEmail", "john@smith.com", "The future is here!", {
    in: {
        minute: 13,
        year: 1 
    },
    on: {
        days: 1,
        hours: 13,
        year: function () {
            if (x) { 
                return 2037
            }
        }
    }, 
});

[alur222]

Thanks! It's clear now. 👍

[luixal]

Hey, I think the package is no longer supported, but I haven't find anything better for this than using LaterJS.

Supporting that may be a different package? SteveJobs-meteor-jobs-queue-laterjs?

[msavin]

@luixal not sure which package we are discussing - but maybe this is relevant: Jobs.run now supports a date field so you can plug in any library in there.

Going to close this ticket out as it seems old/resolved - but feel free to open a new one.