diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e74c32c..1b5070d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Description: Schedule R scripts/processes with the Windows task scheduler. This
 Authors@R: c(person("Jan", "Wijffels", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "jwijffels@bnosac.be"), person("BNOSAC", role = "cph"), person("Oliver", "Belmans", role = c("cph", "aut")))
 Maintainer: Jan Wijffels <jwijffels@bnosac.be>
 License: AGPL-3
-Version: 1.5
+Version: 1.6
 URL: https://github.com/bnosac/taskscheduleR
 OS_type: windows
 Imports:
diff --git a/R/taskscheduleR.R b/R/taskscheduleR.R
index a2195cb..0f6b1e8 100644
--- a/R/taskscheduleR.R
+++ b/R/taskscheduleR.R
@@ -160,8 +160,14 @@ taskscheduler_create <- function(taskname = basename(rscript),
   if(!schedule %in% c('ONLOGON', 'ONIDLE')){
     cmd <- sprintf("%s /ST %s", cmd, starttime)
   }
-  if(!schedule %in% c('ONCE', 'ONLOGON', 'ONIDLE')){
-    cmd <- sprintf("%s /SD %s", cmd, shQuote(startdate))
+  if(!schedule %in% c('ONLOGON', 'ONIDLE')){
+    if(schedule %in% "ONCE" && missing(startdate)){
+      ## run once now 
+      cmd <- cmd
+    }else{
+      cmd <- sprintf("%s /SD %s", cmd, shQuote(startdate))  
+    }
+    
   }
   if(schedule %in% c('WEEKLY', 'MONTHLY')){
     cmd <- sprintf("%s /D %s", cmd, days)
diff --git a/inst/NEWS b/inst/NEWS
index 302ac45..cae5eb6 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS
+++ b/inst/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Package: taskscheduleR
 ================
 
+Version: 1.6 [2022-03-10]
+- Use startdate in case of schedule = 'ONCE' in order to allow scheduling a script to run once in the future (issue #88)
+
 Version: 1.5 [2021-04-16]
 - Add rmarkdown to Suggests in DESCRIPTION