Hi Diego, On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:16:03PM -0300, Diego Fernandez wrote:
I made up a new type of ticket number, it is composed this way: year.month.day.Counter The Counter must reset to zero every midnight, so I added a cron to the crontab. But my problem is: What happend if someone store a new ticket at 23:59:59 of 11/12/02 and it takes to form the ticket number this date. The cron runs at 00 of 12/12/02. and the Counter is taken after the cron changes it to 0 then i'll have the ticket number 20021211001, and not the last ticket of 20021211. [...]
It's easier if you take Ticket/Number/DateChecksum.pm as sample (remove just the checksum stuff). -=> The CounterLog incl. the last modify date (like "counter;date;"). If the date is not the same, the counter starts from 0. Like you want. No cronjob is needed! ,-)
Diego.
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