issue-740: ascending time function (go-co-op#744)

* issue-740: ascending time function

* issue-740: update documentation

* issue-740: un-export ascending function

* issue-740: sentence correction

README.md

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Jobs can be run every x weeks on specific days of the week and at specific times
 - [**Monthly**](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-co-op/gocron/v2#MonthlyJob):
 Jobs can be run every x months on specific days of the month and at specific times.
 - [**One time**](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-co-op/gocron/v2#OneTimeJob):
-Jobs can be run once at a specific time. These are non-recurring jobs.
+Jobs can be run at specific time(s) (either once or many times).
 
 ### Concurrency Limits
 Jobs can be limited individually or across the entire scheduler.

job.go

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math/rand"
-	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -448,11 +447,9 @@ type oneTimeJobDefinition struct {
 
 func (o oneTimeJobDefinition) setup(j *internalJob, _ *time.Location, now time.Time) error {
 	sortedTimes := o.startAt(j)
-	sort.Slice(sortedTimes, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return sortedTimes[i].Before(sortedTimes[j])
-	})
+	slices.SortStableFunc(sortedTimes, ascendingTime)
 	// keep only schedules that are in the future
-	idx, found := slices.BinarySearchFunc(sortedTimes, now, timeCmp())
+	idx, found := slices.BinarySearchFunc(sortedTimes, now, ascendingTime)
 	if found {
 		idx++
 	}
@@ -499,18 +496,6 @@ func OneTimeJob(startAt OneTimeJobStartAtOption) JobDefinition {
 	}
 }
 
-func timeCmp() func(element time.Time, target time.Time) int {
-	return func(element time.Time, target time.Time) int {
-		if element.Equal(target) {
-			return 0
-		}
-		if element.Before(target) {
-			return -1
-		}
-		return 1
-	}
-}
-
 // -----------------------------------------------
 // -----------------------------------------------
 // ----------------- Job Options -----------------
@@ -917,7 +902,7 @@ type oneTimeJob struct {
 // lastRun: 8 => [idx=3,found=found] => next is none
 // lastRun: 9 => [idx=3,found=found] => next is none
 func (o oneTimeJob) next(lastRun time.Time) time.Time {
-	idx, found := slices.BinarySearchFunc(o.sortedTimes, lastRun, timeCmp())
+	idx, found := slices.BinarySearchFunc(o.sortedTimes, lastRun, ascendingTime)
 	// if found, the next run is the following index
 	if found {
 		idx++

scheduler.go

@@ -311,9 +311,7 @@ func (s *scheduler) selectExecJobsOutForRescheduling(id uuid.UUID) {
 		// always grab the last element in the slice as that is the furthest
 		// out in the future and the time from which we want to calculate
 		// the subsequent next run time.
-		slices.SortStableFunc(j.nextScheduled, func(a, b time.Time) int {
-			return a.Compare(b)
-		})
+		slices.SortStableFunc(j.nextScheduled, ascendingTime)
 		scheduleFrom = j.nextScheduled[len(j.nextScheduled)-1]
 	}
 

scheduler_test.go

@@ -2190,8 +2190,8 @@ func TestScheduler_AtTimesJob(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 		},
 		{
-			name:      "two runs in the future",
-			atTimes:   []time.Time{n.Add(1 * time.Millisecond), n.Add(3 * time.Millisecond)},
+			name:      "two runs in the future - order is maintained even if times are provided out of order",
+			atTimes:   []time.Time{n.Add(3 * time.Millisecond), n.Add(1 * time.Millisecond)},
 			fakeClock: clockwork.NewFakeClockAt(n),
 			advanceAndAsserts: []func(t *testing.T, j Job, clock clockwork.FakeClock, runs *atomic.Uint32){
 				func(t *testing.T, j Job, clock clockwork.FakeClock, runs *atomic.Uint32) {

util.go

@@ -88,12 +88,14 @@ func convertAtTimesToDateTime(atTimes AtTimes, location *time.Location) ([]time.
 		}
 		atTimesDate = append(atTimesDate, at.time(location))
 	}
-	slices.SortStableFunc(atTimesDate, func(a, b time.Time) int {
-		return a.Compare(b)
-	})
+	slices.SortStableFunc(atTimesDate, ascendingTime)
 	return atTimesDate, nil
 }
 
+func ascendingTime(a, b time.Time) int {
+	return a.Compare(b)
+}
+
 type waitGroupWithMutex struct {
 	wg sync.WaitGroup
 	mu sync.Mutex