Timeperiods documentation

[cellact]

I can't find any documentation about timeperiods.
I would like to understand what happens if I set a service check interval to 1440mins (24h) and the timeperiod is set to 3am-4am for example.

Thanks.

[scottwilkerson]

Specifying a timeperiod in the check_period directive allows you to restrict the time that Nagios perform regularly scheduled, active checks of the host or service. When Nagios attempts to reschedule a host or service check, it will make sure that the next check falls within a valid time range within the defined timeperiod. If it doesn't, Nagios will adjust the next check time to coincide with the next "valid" time in the specified timeperiod. This means that the host or service may not get checked again for another hour, day, or week, etc.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/timeperiods.html