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At the moment I run SABnzbd manually at times that suit me, but I plan to run SABnzbd as an automatic service on a headless machine and so the Schedule feature looks useful. However, I cannot get the Schedule to do what I want. Either I'm misunderstanding how it's supposed to work (more likely), or there's something wrong with it (less likely).

Version: 0.7.6Beta1
Install-type: Linux repository jcfp/ppa
OS: Linux Mint Maya 32-bit
Skin: smpl - black
Firewall Software: None (using separate hardware firewall)
IPv6: No
Reproducible? Yes (for me, at least)

According to both http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-scheduling and http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/configure-scheduling-0-7, on startup, SABnzbd will evaluate all schedules and determine the current pause/resume state (italics mine).

I want to set up the following schedule: download between midnight and 08:00 Monday to Friday, and all day/night on Saturday and Sunday. Or, in other words, do not download between 08:00 and midnight on weekdays.

I've currently configured the following schedule:
08:00 Weekdays Pause
00:01 Daily Resume

I've also tried:
08:00 Weekdays Pause
00:01 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Resume

Neither schedule works. As soon as SABnzbd is launched manually the queue starts downloading regardless of the day or time.

If I understand the Scheduling page of the wiki correctly, launching SABnzbd at 18:00 on a Tuesday evening should cause the download queue to pause immediately, because 18:00 on a Tuesday falls between 08:00 on one weekday (Pause) and 00:01 the following weekday (Resume).

So what's going wrong? Am I not understanding how the Schedule function works? Is the Schedule function broken?

Silly mistake when we added multiple days per schedule.
The evaluation at startup wasn't changed accordingly.
Will be fixed in 0.7.6.

Temp work-around: use schedules with just one day active.
Yes, you'll need a lot of schedules

Thank you for the explanation. Setting individual schedules for each day works. I'll test it again when 0.7.6 is released.

I've just had a chance to test it; the schedule is now behaving as expected. Thank you for fixing it.