world time schedule with user input

[jason10]

Hello, i have come upon another problem where i have no idea how to get the user input to put the time they want for the led to turn on

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def schedule():
    hour_of_day_start = e3.get()
    minute_of_day_start = e4.get()

    hour_of_day_finish = e5.get()
    minute_of_day_finish = e6.get()
    
    print("test one")
        
    while True:
        print("in loop")
        time_start = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M")
        print("Testing time_start variable")
        if time_start == "10:03":
            print("test time")
            red_on()
            time.sleep(5)
            red_off
        elif button_cancel == True:
            cancel()
        break    
        time.sleep(0.030)

this is where my problem is, i put the print for debugging and i saw that it will not go past the

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print("Testing time_start variable")

and also how will i be able to get the number from the entry and put it as the time they want it on, like lets say they want to have it on a 9:43, they will put 09 in one box and 43 in the other and the led will turn on. how am i able to do that??

thank you in advance

[Garvan]

[[Deleted]] See response below for reason code does not work.

[rpdom]

If you mean that your function doesn't sit and wait for the correct time, is that because the "break" should be indented to the same level as cancel() ? Otherwise it will always break out of the while loop the first time it run it.