How to include contexts based on time and date

The Asterisk dial plan, extensions.conf lets you include contexts based on time and/or date.

Syntax:

include => context|<times>|<weekdays>|<mdays>|<months>

Syntax for Asterisk 1.6

As of Asterisk 1.6-Beta and Trunk (with an uncertain start date) the delimiter has changed to the comma (',').
Stumbled across this after my dialplan would not work in 1.6 or trunk.

For example, the syntax should be....

include = day,08:00-16:59,mon-fri,*,*

Example:

Example from Troy Settle

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• Asterisk config extensions.conf: The dial plan
• Asterisk cmd gotoiftime: Conditional goto based on time/date

I ran into a problem with this. The night context is always included in this scenario, and if the night context contains the same extensions as the day context, Asterisk will continue with the night context if the extensions match:


will jump to:

To prevent this, specify an explicit night include: