Refresh time: should "next" conform to core API "schedule"?

[kyleN]

After setting the refresh schedule to every Sunday at 3:00, it still seems the next refresh is unaffected. I expected the next refresh to be Sunday Dec 10 at 3:00. Or am I misunderstanding something?

    me@pi3:~$ sudo snap set core refresh.schedule=sun,3:00
    me@pi3:~$ sudo snap refresh --time
    schedule: 00:00-04:59/5:00-10:59/11:00-16:59/17:00-23:59
    last: 2017-12-07T12:53:00Z
    next: 2017-12-07T23:44:00Z

From a call to core REST API system-info:

    "refresh": {
        "schedule": "sun,3:00",
        "last": "2017-12-07T12:53:00Z",
        "next": "2017-12-07T18:18:00Z"
    },

    me@pi3:~$ snap version
    snap    2.29.3
    snapd   2.29.3
    series  16
    kernel  4.4.0-1030-raspi2

[mborzecki]

Thanks for reporting this. Unfortunately weekdays are not currently supported in refresh schedule. 2.30 includes some changes that will reject a such schedule and raise an error.

Worry not though. There is some ongoing work to introduce new, more more flexible, syntax for refresh schedules. Details are being discussed in this topic:

Refresh scheduling on specific days of the month

After some extensive and independent bikeshedding on the syntax, what follows below is a proposal for how the new syntax might look like and behave. But first, the high-level goals that the proposal attempts to achieve: Goals Good readability, although some initial familiarity may be required Good usability in the command line (no escaping, no quoting) Support for time windows rather than just individual times Support for fuzzing inside time windows Support for terse and readable recurring ev…

[kyleN]

Hi mborzecki,

Is current support limited to scheduling within each (and every) day then?

Cheers

[mborzecki]

Is current support limited to scheduling within each (and every) day then?

Yes, that’s correct.