Question

I have a program that checks for the date and minute part of my job object. If these match then it triggers a particular job.

   If jb.ScheduledStartTime.Value.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy mm") =
 Now().ToString("MM/dd/yyyy mm") Then
                        'Do some work here.
                    End If

Issue:
If I schedule different jobs during the day at different time interval then they just work fine. I mean they are triggered and in the above code they enter the loop when it matches the current format.

However, it doesn’t work when the date changes at 12:00. Even though I have scheduled start time set to trigger at 9:00 AM in the morning it enters the loop exactly at 12:00 AM which is invalidating my logic leaving me confused.

Why is this happening? Is my date and minute checking logic incorrect here? Is there any better way of doing this?

I don’t check for exact seconds here I just check for the minute part.

Answer 1

Also check the hour part (HH) of the dateteime, your format should be “MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm”

try this

 If jb.ScheduledStartTime.Value.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm") =
    Now().ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm") Then
                        'Do some work here.
 End If