Hi Devyani,<br><br>You might have problems with the date format due to your system's settings. There's the following remark in Drools 4 documentation:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<h6 class="title"><font size="2">Date</font></h6><p>The date format "dd-mmm-yyyy" is supported by default. You
can customize this by providing an alternative date format mask
as a System property ("drools.dateformat" is the name of the
property). If more control is required, use the inline-eval
constraint.</p></blockquote>The best thing is to set that system property to the exact format you want to use. Something like this:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
System.setProperty("drools.dateformat", "dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm");<br></blockquote><div><br>-- <br><br>I believe, that date-effective will simply check the system time before firing a rule and, if the current time is before the specified time in the rule, it won't fire the rule.<br>
<br>AFAIK, you can't make a rule be triggered at a certain time everyday, except if you insert at that specified time a fact (or a set of facts) that will make that rule fire.. <br><br>Leo Gomes.<br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/9/29 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:devyani.sapre@wipro.com">devyani.sapre@wipro.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Hi All
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I am using 4.0. I
have a requirement to execute a rule only during a specified time of a given
day</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>While going through
the documentation I found that I could use the date-effective attribute to
specify the date and time</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div>
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<h4><a name="12b5c1f7b169074e_d0e3110"></a><i><font face="Arial">6.5.1.8. date-effective</font></i></h4></div></div></div>
<p><i><font face="Arial">default value : N/A</font></i></p>
<p><i><font face="Arial">type : String, which contains a Date/Time
definition</font></i></p>
<p><i><font face="Arial">A rule can only activate if the current date and time is
after date-effective attribute.</font></i></p>
<p><span><font face="Arial">But while trying out the
same, the engine recognizes only the day and not the time. How do I specify the
time? So far I have been using the std format HH:MM:SS , tried both 12-hr and 24
-hr format but no luck. Please help.</font></span></p>
<p><span><font face="Arial">Also, I would like to know
how can I make a rule run on a specified time everyday. With date-effective
specifying a date would be mandatory? Is thr a way or I need to put that in the
rule condition part.</font></span></p>
<p><span><font face="Arial"></font></span> </p>
<p><span><font face="Arial">Thanks</font></span></p>
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