Cron And Intervals
by val-town2d3ec654b6a7No licenseListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026
Use when building a val that runs on a schedule — periodic jobs, recurring tasks, polling, cron jobs, monitoring, alerting. Covers the interval handler signature, cron expressions, the UTC timezone constraint, and the `lastRunAt` pattern for detecting new items since the previous run.
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