You can run a cron job every minute and check its time, or use task queue
and set its eta.

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keakon


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:54 AM, senderj2...@yahoo.com <
senderj2...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ian for the reply. Your words on "every 5 minutes synchronized"
> match the ones in google's web site, but not the same as I
> experienced. I deploy my app 5-6 times a day for the past month and
> the cron job constantly starts and repeats at 05, 10, 15 of the hour.
> Nevertheless, this is what I want anyway.
>
> Please help me further by explaining how I can "enqueue a task to run
> at
>  exactly the time you want". I know how to submit jobs to task queues,
> but don't know how I can control the timing. Please help.
>
> On Nov 23, 4:36 am, Ian Marshall <ianmarshall...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I could be wrong, but in my experience "every 5 minutes synchronized"
> > means that each scheduled task starts 5 minutes after the previous one
> > started, and that the first start is at last configuration-upload-to-
> > GAE time.
> >
> > You could have your scheduled task run every 5 minutes, and then have
> > a time detect. If the time is close enough then run your processing
> > from within your scheduled task, otherwise enqueue a task to run at
> > exactly the time you want (with a delay of between zero and 5
> > minutes).
> >
> > On Nov 22, 6:35 am, "senderj2...@yahoo.com" <senderj2...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I can use "every 5 minutes synchronized" to schedule cron job to run
> > > at 05, 10, 15, 20 etc of every hour. How can I schedule cron job to
> > > run at 06, 11, 16, 21 .... (1 minute off) of every hour?- Hide quoted
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