I use scheduled cron jobs quite often for automating varios different tasks including checking url's at specific times and/or dates. I was wondering if it is possible to add this functionality to simon to allow you to schedule checks at specific times of the day or dates of the year?
Re: include specific time/date checks in checking options
[Sorry for the delay in replying; I'm on vacation in Washington, DC this week.]
Simon includes a scheduler to enable you to perform checks at the desired frequency. You can also use the auto-pause settings to avoid checking when a server is known to be offline (e.g. a periodic reboot).
In the future I plan to add more scheduling options, to enable you to specify specific dates or times. But in the meantime you can do most of such scheduling with the auto-pause options.