Re: [squid-users] Time based ACL

Chris Robertson wrote:
> Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> Nyamul Hassan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a few time based ACLs which are used in delay_pools. In the
>>> literature, it suggests that the higher limit in time based ACL
>>> should always be higher than the lower limit, which works well, but
>>> what about if we want to define something like: 6pm to 2am? Will
>>> 18:00-02:00 work?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> HASSAN
>>>
>>
>> The Squid time occurs within the single days specified in the pattern
>> (default any) and doesn't let you cross midnight to other unspecified
>> days.
>>
>> 6pm to 2am is configured like this:
>>
>> acl t time 02:00-18:00
>> *_access ... !t
>>
>> Amos
>
> Is it possible to combine multiple times, so acl "t" if defined like...
>
> acl t time 18:00-23:59
> acl t time 00:00-02:00
>
> ...would work as requested?
>

Good question. I haven't tried it myself, but what I read of the code
looks like it should work.

Amos

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