nightly push action rework v2

very poor documentation for a dependent needs
action/job. looks like it might be repository dispatch
or it must be included in the main file.

.github/workflows/check_nightly.yml

@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 # https://github.community/t/trigger-action-on-schedule-only-if-there-are-changes-to-the-branch/17887/2
-check_date:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: Check latest commit
-    outputs:
-      should_run: ${{ steps.should_run.outputs.should_run }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: print latest_commit
-        run: echo ${{ github.sha }}
+name: check_date
+on: repository_dispatch
+jobs:
+  check_date:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      name: Check latest commit
+      outputs:
+        should_run: ${{ steps.should_run.outputs.should_run }}
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        - name: print latest_commit
+          run: echo ${{ github.sha }}
 
-      - id: should_run
-        continue-on-error: true
-        name: check latest commit is less than a day ago
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' }}
-        run: test -z $(git rev-list  --after="24 hours"  ${{ github.sha }}) && echo "::set-output name=should_run::false"
+        - id: should_run
+          continue-on-error: true
+          name: check latest commit is less than a day ago
+          if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' }}
+          run: test -z $(git rev-list  --after="24 hours"  ${{ github.sha }}) && echo "::set-output name=should_run::false"