depends how involved you wanna get

i've used quartz for this and it worked well, and seen hangfire mentioned as a simpler alternative

I would like at least an accuracy within a minute, so not very high standards

Are Quartz and Hangfire libraries or something?

yeah

quartz is the 'can do literally anything if you tinker with it enough' type

Is it easy-ish to set up?

it uses its own terminology for stuff but not tooooo bad

you create a class to define your job and another for any data you want to pass along, were the main things

Doesn't sound too bad

I'm planning to use this for a background service, is there anything which I should be aware of in relation to that?

i don't think so - from what i remember that was one of its primary use-cases

nice

@234678959491645440 Do you happen to have any good tutorial/resource on using Quartz?

no, sorry

it was a year ago i last used it

Quartz seems almost waaay to overkill for this. I literally just want to schedule something for a single time. The Quartz documentation makes it seem unnecessarily difficult to do this.

Random question:
Is a “daemon” a correct way to refer to a background service like that? I’ve seen the term being used without much explanation before

literally no idea what that is

Found a Wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

that image scares me

So not just any background process then

I mean like annoying to use. Ideal would being able to just schedule an action for a specific time. Although I suppose I could just create a wrapper class/service around a timer.

Wasn't there supposed to be a new fancy timer in .NET 6?

I want to do stuff other than just schedule events in the app

Also the fact this mentions COM doesn't bode well

Fair I guess

Again I can just wrap it in a class/service

I use NCronTab
https://paste.mod.gg/nzsnlpyauajr/0

What's this "Cron" thing that keeping popping up in documentation?

It's a pattern that specifies a time-based schedule

huh, neat

Very

Alternatively, if you're executing in the context of a Linux machine, setting up a CRON tab that just executes your program at a regular interval might be easier

This similar to Windows task scheduler, except Windows doesn't use Cron patterns

To be fair, the thing I wanna make isn't much more complex than a background service which shuts down the system at specific times and also does some Windows toast interaction, but still I thought this would be a decent opportunity to learn about hosted services and stuff

So if this is a hosted service that you want running constantly, I would recommend my first post, but if it's something that can just be a spawned process every now and then and doesn't have to be constantly running, perhaps something like Cron tab or task scheduler is relevant

You mean NCrontab?

Yeah, just a simple library that yields a time until the next scheduled moment to do something.

For that project type I'd probably use a WorkerService