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Alert for date+time trigger only (SWQL alarm clock)

Hey all,

     Surprised I'm having so much trouble with what I thought would be pretty straightforward. What I'm trying to accomplish is to create an alert that triggers just simply on a specific date+time. (Say, 6 months from today, I want an alert to trigger that also sends an email, *hey, reminder, time to do that thing*.) I know, easier ways to set a calendar reminder, but this was just a thought as a secondary.

   I thought I might be able to create a custom SWQL alert that maybe says "when 1=1", and set it to evaluate the trigger condition every 4380 hours, or whatever 6 months is. But I'm so far at a dead end there.

   I also thought I might be able to just pull a timestamp off of the most recent alert triggered in Orion.AlertHistory, if its past a certain date, trigger the alert. But I don't actually see that table as pollable from custom alert configuration.

    Any insight would be much appreciated. I'll keep banging my head against the keyboard too. I feel like I should have figured this out by now...