Asterisk shabbat mode?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:01:57AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:05:51PM +0200, ik wrote:
>>> You can use libhdate with some AGI and set variable to calculate  
>>> shabat per
>>> place and day.
>>
>> This is relatively quite expensive. Maybe a qeekly cron to update a
>> relevant GotoIfTime line in the dialplan?
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> Actually I'm quite happy with picking up the phone and entering an  
> extension number that puts the system into shabbat mode, and doing the  
> opposite motzi shabbat. What I am looking for is a way of setting a  
> presistent variable, so that it knows it is in shabbat mode, and I can  
> easily check it in a dial plan.

Normally the astdb is used for such persistant variables.

To set:

  Set(${DB(flags/shabat)=1)

To reset:

  DbDel(flags/shabat)

To test in the dialplan: the function DB_EXISTS:

  GotoIf($[${DB_EXISTS(flags/shabat)}]:context-for-shabat)

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> I'll take the chance that if there is a power glitch, the system will  
> reboot in normal mode.

If that's OK, you can set a global variable instead.

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