[Remind-Fans] Problem with timed events with long warning time

[hubert depesz lubaczewski]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:41:01AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:47:24 +0100
> hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz at depesz.com> wrote:
> 
> > remind -z -k"/home/depesz/bin/xmppsend.py jabber at jid Reminder: %s" .reminders
> 
> Ah.  By default, Remind wakes up every 5 minutes, so it might have woken
> up just after midnight (let's say 0:02) and only then queue the reminder.
> 
> Try -z1 to make Remind wake up once a minute instead of once every 5 minutes.

ah. makes sense. Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

depesz

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