Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux I would like to specify a more exact time for certain alarms. Currently only hours and minutes can be specified. Please add seconds to this. I'm using KAlarm 1.3.6.
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.