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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

let lastRunDate = null; client.once('ready', () => { console.log('Bot is ready!'); setInterval(checkAndRun, 60 * 1000); // Check every minute }); client.login(BOT_TOKEN); async function checkAndRun() { const now = new Date(); const ninePM = new Date(now); ninePM.setUTCHours(21, 0, 0, 0); // Set to 9pm UTC if (now > ninePM && (!lastRunDate || lastRunDate.getDate() !== now.getDate())) { lastRunDate = now; await fetchAndPost(); } }

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

implemented this in my code, seems to work great after removing the external cron

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

ok brody, thank you

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

or should i just go back to the drawing board and figure out continuous running of the bot

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

client.once('ready', async () => { console.log('Bot is ready!'); await fetchAndPost(); client.destroy(); process.exit(0); }); would this work better?

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

well i didnt 'exit' explicitly, but im not sure of the difference between exiting and destroying the discord client and resources

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

in discord i see the bot go offline, but im not sure how else i would test what youre asking

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

yes, after completing the posting task, i use client.destroy()

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

and the js script calls the bot too

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

but a js script in github updates that the announcement has been made to avoid duplicate announcements

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

its static

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

it posts a random announcement based on the contents of a postgres db

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

ill look into coding this properly based on the advice given previously, thanks for your time

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

ok, can you tldr why that is please?

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

it just seemed that i wanted to trigger the bot to run as i would manually at specific times through the day

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

im not a dev so probably through ignorance

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

is that really bad

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

yeah i am :catPeek:

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

found it

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•Created by buddyswift on 4/9/2024 in #✋｜help

cron not running as scheduled

https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1160174507659632760

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