Any chance there will be cron jobs for functions? Right now, I'm using AppEngine just to schedule a function to run.
You can also set up Cloud Scheduler to push to Pub/Sub, which can trigger your function. This is helpful if you don't want your function to be available via a public HTTPS endpoint.
functions.cron.schedule('0 0 * * *').onSchedule(...)
or something like that. Even if it behind the scenes it just did exactly what I'm doing manually now, I see so many questions about cron-triggered functions that it would save a ton of people time searching for what the best route is to take.