What's the best way of waiting for extremely long periods of time?

[surreal flower]

I'm making a calendar app where users can schedule events. What's the best way to wait for extremely long perdios of time like days, months or years?

I can't use JS' setTimeout function because that has a limit of ~25 days due to JS being 32 bit based.

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[unique trench]

could use cron

[merry isle]

What about using timeouts as normal but periodically refetching to check if any new timeouts need to be created?

[surreal flower]

so like saving events in the database and when the server starts fetch all events and create cron jobs?

[unique trench]

yup