# How to set Prime time

**URL:** https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450 "2019-02-07T12:38:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![bhushan27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@bhushan27](https://community.openpbs.org/u/bhushan27)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450/1 "2019-02-07T12:38:35Z")

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I want to run my job in “p\_A” queue from 2330 to 0930 in weekdays, and don’t want to set non prime time for any queue, Please find my below setting for prime time in holidays file  
YEAR 2019

Prime Table  
weekday   
saturday   
sunday

```
      Prime 

```

Day Start End

weekday 2359 0930  
saturday 1500 0001  
sunday all

Thanks

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### Author: ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450/2 "2019-02-07T14:17:11Z")

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Could you please share the issues you are facing with this holidays file and the prime queue you have created ?

Upon updating the holidays file did you kill -HUP ?

Please refer : Admin Guide section 4.9.34.2 Configuring Primetime and Non-primetime

> **[PBS18.2.3\_BigBook.pdf](https://www.pbsworks.com/pdfs/PBS18.2.3_BigBook.pdf)**
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### Author: ![bhushan27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@bhushan27](https://community.openpbs.org/u/bhushan27)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450/4 "2019-02-08T13:13:26Z")

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Can i set prime time for queue without giving “\_p” prefix to queue name?

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### Author: ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450/5 "2019-02-08T15:28:38Z")

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- PBS provides a standard execution queue called workq which is an anytime queue:  
24x7

- Queues that does not have p\_ prefix or np\_ prefix will be anytime queues

- Please find the example below:

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### Author: ![bhushan27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@bhushan27](https://community.openpbs.org/u/bhushan27)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-set-prime-time/1450/6 "2019-02-08T16:44:14Z")

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So if i want to make one of my existing queue as prime time queue then i have to delete and recreate with p\_ prefix?  
If another queue want to be run as prime time queue for specific days and then again run as anytime queue?

Thanks in advance…!!!