Possible to schedule a task to the second with schtasks?

[raphael75]

I have a file that creates a scheduled task using schtasks:

<?php
$cur_dt = new DateTime('now');
$cur_dt->add(new DateInterval('PT60S'));
$cmd = 'schtasks /create /sc once /ru uname /rp pwd /tn "repost_labor" /tr "' . $fname . '" /st ' . $cur_dt->format('H:i:s') . ' /sd ' . $cur_dt->format('Y/m/d');

exec($cmd, $out, $retval);
?>

so it generates something that looks like this:

schtasks /create /sc once /ru uname /rp pwd /tn "repost_labor" /tr "myfile.bat" /st 12:52:12 /sd 2013/7/23

However, even though it is trying to set the seconds, Task Scheduler ignores it and only adds the hour & minute. So if the current time is 12:51:12, instead of the above creating a task at 12:52:12, it creates it at 12:52:00.

Why does Task Scheduler ignore the seconds?

Is there a workaround?

Thanks!

 

[strongm]

>Why does Task Scheduler ignore the seconds?

This is the documented behaviour for schtasks

 

[raphael75]

Is there a workaround? Maybe a 3rd-party program that can schedule ot the second?

 

[strongm]

I'm afraid it just isn't possible with the built-in scheduler, which is only accurate to the minute (well, there are some tricks you can play with offsets that are originally designed to stop tasks clashing)

To achieve what yo want woul require replacing the built-in scheduler completely. I have no specific recommendations for that.

 

[raphael75]

I haven't actually tried this yet, but I think it would be possible to schedule to the second by creating an xml task file and then using:

schtasks /create /xml <filename>

because you can include seconds in the xml.