Request for a new schedule frequency method twiceDailyAt()

[oliworx]

There is the method twiceDaily() already, but it will run the task at the full hour, which might be a problem.

I always try to avoid running cron jobs at the full hour, but rather schedule it at some prime number minute, so there will not be a big peak in app server and database load, due to running a bunch of tasks and jobs at the same time.

So I suggest to introduce a twiceDailyAt() method, that would have two string parameters, like twiceDailyAt('06:17', '18:17')

    /**
     * Schedule the event to run twice daily at the given times
     *
     * @param  string  $first
     * @param  string  $second
     * @return $this
     */
    public function twiceDailyAt($first, $second)

[shaedrich]

This has been added to 8.x via #38174

[shaedrich]

It's a bit unfortunate that these methods have to be implemented one by one instead of having a more fluid interface like what you can already do with beetween() and timezone() like this:

$schedule
    ->job(\App\Jobs\DoSomething::class)
    ->hourly()
    ->at(17)

Furthermore, sub-minute scheduling wouldn't have to have been specifically introduced (#47279) if we had something similar to the query builder's dynamic where*():

<?php

namespace Illuminate\Console\Scheduling;


trait ManagesFrequencies
{
    const FREQUENCY_METHOD_REGEXP = '/^(?:(every)(\d{1,30})?(Second|Minute|Hour|Day|Week|Month|Year)(s)?|(twice|bi|tri)?(?i:hour|dai|week|month|quarter|year)(ly(At|On)?)?)$/'; // @todo overly simplified for presentation

    public function __call(string $name, array $args)
    {
        if (preg_match(self::FREQUENCY_METHOD_REGEXP, $name, $matches)) {
            return match() {
                self::isEveryNth($matches) => $this->every(),
                // ...
            };
        }
    }
}