Summary: | Ability to also specify seconds for the alarm time | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kalarm | Reporter: | Stefan Borggraefe <Stefan.Borggraefe> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | David Jarvie <djarvie> |
Status: | CLOSED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | darkliz |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Debian testing | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Stefan Borggraefe
2006-01-12 13:34:50 UTC
KAlarm is built on the assumption that all alarms are on minute boundaries, and changing this would involve affect quite a few areas of the program. Can you please explain more fully why you want this facility, and what you would use it for? Well, yesterday I wanted to participate in a competition. In this competition the first five callers which called after 14:00 were given free cinema tickets. Since I can dial with my computer with a small script I wrote and it has the exact time via NTP I wanted to use it for this. Because it takes circa five seconds from issuing the command until the phone on the other side rings, I wanted to use KAlarm with an alarm time of 13:55:55 which wasn't possible. I won the tickets anyway, so I'm not too bitter. ;-) Well, my use case may be rather obscure, but I think it could be desirable in some more occasions to have the ability to run a certain command in an more exact point in time. It wouldn't be possible to guarantee a timing accuracy of 1 second, due to system load variation if nothing else, so I'm not too sure that it would really be a good idea in case people were mislead into relying on its accuracy. It would in any case require quite a bit of work to modify KAlarm to do this, which isn't likely to happen any time soon. Hi, I need to execute varios threads, at the same minute, but without concurrence. You could perhaps do this via a script whose execution could be scheduled by KAlarm. |