How can I schedule a Task to execute at a specific time using celery?

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Published on 2010-01-02T03:37:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 12:40 UTC
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I've looked into PeriodicTask, but the examples only cover making it recur. I'm looking for something more like cron's ability to say "execute this task every Monday at 1 a.m."

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