How to Fire an Event at certain hour and only once a day

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Hi..,

I am new to phonegap..

Right now i am developing simple android application of my own Interest.

what i'm doing here is that, i am storing date of birth of all of my friends manually.

The application should alert me Whenever it finds any birthday of my friends....

For that, i need to check my table whether any of my friends having birthday or not.. and i need to know here , How to Fire an Event at certain hour and only once a day???

Any ideas would be appreciated :)

Thanks in advance

Posted 26-Jun-13 3:06am

Ramkumar K

Updated 26-Jun-13 3:09am

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Nelek 26-Jun-13 9:29am

If you want to do your reminder, you should read the date&time of the phone, so if you already have it... compare the time with, let's say, if ((current_time >= 09:00) AND (today_updated==false)){call update(); today_updated==true;} or something similar, and compare another time with 23:55 so you can reset the "today_updated" flag.

Ramkumar K 27-Jun-13 2:32am

Thank you Nelek...your idea is useful..

Nelek 27-Jun-13 13:06pm

You are welcome :)

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max_nowak · Answer 1 · 2013-06-26T03:20:00

I know nothing about phonegap, but as for javascript:

you can use the JS-Function

setTimeout(/javascript function/,milliseconds);

It executes the Function you pass after a specified time. For example

JavaScript

var birthday = /* a value you presumably somehow get from your phonegap framework thing*/
var now = Date.now();

setTimeout(reminder, birthday - now);  /*where reminder is another javascript function*/

Something this way