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Re: [Bigsister-general] bb_event_generator.cfg pt.2


Niels Baggesen wrote:
> Here postpone_to=8:00 is the options makes sense for me.
> 
> I never understood what the meaning of postpone= is.

I don't remember what the original idea was, but nowadays postpone and
delay behave exactly identically, except for that postpone_to uses
the postpone mechanism and is leaving the delay alone. So you can
combine postpone_to and delay, avoiding delay being ineffective near
postpone_to boundaries (with postpone_to=08:00 and delay=10, alert
conditions at 07:59 will not generate an alarm until 08:09, if
postpone_to had been implemented using the delay mechanism, the alarm
were raised at 08:00).

Actually, postpone should probably never be used directly and rather
seen as implementation detail of postpone_to, use delay for
delaying a given number of minutes, postpone_to for delaying to a
given time of day.

Best regards,
Tom
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