Some scripts cannot be run between certain times, this is especially the case when we are running long duration tests or preparing test data by data-seeding overnight.
In these cases it may be useful to specify times when you don’t want a script to run, for example you might want to schedule a script so that it can’t run when backups or system restarts are taking place.
The attached script contains an example of a function (CheckExclusionTime) which can prevent a script from running between certain times. The script is made more complicated by the fact that you might want to prevent a script from running between 23:50 one day and 00:15 the next day. To achieve the desired result it is necessary to convert any time into an integer value representing the number of minutes which have passed from 00:00 on Monday until the current time and then calculating if the current time falls within the excluded period.
The integers 1 through to 7 represent the days Monday through to Sunday.
Other integers are used to represent the exclusion start time and exclusion end time.
