Is there a way to schedule a task at a specific time or with an interval?

Question

Is there a way to run a task in rust, a thread at best, at a specific time or in an interval again and again?

So that I can run my function every 5 minutes or every

Answer 1

For the latest Rust nightly-version:

use std::old_io::Timer;
use std::time::Duration;

let mut timer1 = Timer::new().unwrap();
let mut timer2 = Timer::new().unwrap();
let tick1 = timer1.periodic(Duration::seconds(1));
let tick2 = timer2.periodic(Duration::seconds(3));

loop {
    select! {
        _ = tick1.recv() => do_something1(),
        _ = tick2.recv() => do_something2()
    }
}