Is there a way to do repetitive tasks at intervals?

Question

Is there a way to do repetitive background tasks in Go? I\'m thinking of something like Timer.schedule(task, delay, period) in Java. I know I can do this with

Answer 1

Check out this library: https://github.com/robfig/cron

Example as below:

c := cron.New()
c.AddFunc("0 30 * * * *", func() { fmt.Println("Every hour on the half hour") })
c.AddFunc("@hourly",      func() { fmt.Println("Every hour") })
c.AddFunc("@every 1h30m", func() { fmt.Println("Every hour thirty") })
c.Start()