[Feature] Auto-close lab status at 2am daily
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@dhairyathareja1 is already working on this.
Since Sep 1, 2026.
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Description
Summary
The lab status (open / closed) is currently set entirely through chat commands (bot lab is open, bot lab is closed). There's no automatic behavior — if someone forgets to set it to closed at night, it stays stale.
Problem
- Lab status can remain
openlong after the lab has closed, giving members incorrect information. - Someone has to remember to manually update it every night.
Proposed behavior
- Use a scheduled task (cron-style) to automatically set the lab status to
closedat 2:00 AM IST daily. - The bot should send a message to the designated channel when it does so, e.g.:
🕐 Lab is now closed (auto-updated at 2:00 AM). - The existing manual commands (
bot lab is open,bot lab is closed) continue to work as before and override the auto-status until the next scheduled reset.
Implementation notes
- The project already depends on
node-cron— use it to schedule the task on bot startup. - The timezone should be
Asia/Kolkata(already set in the Docker environment). - The cron expression for 2:00 AM IST daily:
0 2 * * *.
Acceptance criteria
- Lab status automatically changes to
closedat 2:00 AM IST every day. - A notification message is posted to the channel when the auto-close happens.
- Manual
bot lab is openafter 2:00 AM correctly overrides the status until the next night. - Works correctly across timezone/DST boundaries (IST has no DST, so this is straightforward).
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