Allow non-working days (holidays) for days, hours, minutes and seconds

Current Situation

• Non-working days (holidays) are configured on a daily basis.

Desired Behavior

• Non-working days should be specified for days, hours, minutes and seconds.
• Non-working days are considered when calculating the <job next_start_time="..."> answer and the <calendar> answer

Proposal

• In order to make holidays available for more accurate duration, i.e. hh:mm, the existing <run_time> element should be used in order to define "negative" run-times.
• Add <run_time> as child of <holidays>. The periods configured by the <run_time> will be treated as holiday periods (negative run times).
• If <run_time> is a child of <holidays> then the following children/attributes will not be allowed:

  @let_run
  @once
  @repeat
  @single_start
  @start_time_function
  period/@absolute_repeat
  period/@let_run
  period/@repeat
  period/@single_start
  at
  holidays
  

• Example

  • <run_time>
      <period begin="04:00" end="20:00" repeat="01:00"/>
      <holidays>
        <run_time>
          <weekdays>
            <day day="2">
              <period begin="04:00" end="10:00"/>
            <day>
          </weekdays>
        </run_time>
      </holidays>
    </run_time>
    

  • The example translates to: repeat every hour between 4:00 and 20:00 except for tuesdays. On tuesdays repeat every hour between 10:00 and 20:00

Maintainer Notes

• This feature will be considered with reference to Maintenance Window Management