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[RESOLVED] Run or schedule script/function to run one hour after provided time.

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Nov 10.2013

How can I schedule a function to run one hour after a specified time?

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var custom_time = “2013-11-09T19:06:27-06:00”;
schedule(custom_time, 60, script());
function script() {
// Would run code here after 60 minutes
}
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Of course, “schedule()” doesn’t exist, I just put this here to show what I want to accomplish. I have MomentJs already in use on my site, and you can use it to manipulate the time if you need to. The provided time is in a ISO-8601 format (so it is compatible with MomentJs).

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@AlexAtNetNov 10.2013 — You can use [FONT=Courier New]setTimeout[/FONT] function:

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</i>function script() {
// Would run code here after 60 minutes
}

var custom_time = "2013-11-09T19:06:27-06:00";
setTimeout(script, new Date().getTime() - Date.parse(custom_time) + 60 * 60 * 1000);
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@DaAwesomePauthorNov 10.2013 — I understand the code, but when I use just the math part:
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new Date().getTime() - Date.parse(custom_time) + 60 * 60 * 1000
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and I input [FONT=courier new][/FONT][FONT=courier new]2013-11-09T22:01:01-06:00[/FONT], after formatting it it returns sumwhere around 7:30pm when accessing it at about 10:30pm. It should calculate that it needs to reload at 11:01pm. Which would be about 30 minutes.
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@AlexAtNetNov 10.2013 — How do you format it? For me it returns different time because of the different timezone:

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</i>new Date(Date.parse('2013-11-09T22:01:01-06:00')).toString()
// "Sun Nov 10 2013 04:01:01 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)"
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@DaAwesomePauthorNov 10.2013 — I was formatting it using MomentJS.

I just figured out that I can do this:
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var custom_time = "2013-11-09T19:06:27-06:00";
moment_now = moment(new Date());
moment_customtime = moment(custom_time).add('h', 1);
moment_runscripttime = moment_customtime.diff(moment_now);
setTimeout(script, moment_runscripttime);
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It works! I think it's offset by 1 minute after, but I don't care about that. I could fix that if I wanted to. MomentJS is becoming more and more helpful.
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