How to execute code in c# service one time per day at the same hour?

Question

So here\'s my problem, I need to do a c# service running on a server who\'s getting file on ftp one time per day at 3am. I think that I can do it with a thread.sleep() or by

Answer 1

Other answers are good. I just thought I'd point out that

compare the DateTime.Now with 3am

is a bad solution, even if you sleep for some time between each check, as it wastes system resources unnecessarily (not only in repeatedly checking the time, but also in the memory usage of the program).