1. A system that facilitates controlling a welding device based on triggering events, comprising: a real-time clock, internal to a welding device, that provides temporal information that is utilized to define triggering events; a trigger component that stores a plurality of triggering event definitions, verifies that a triggering event has occurred based at least in part on comparing the temporal information received from the clock to the triggering event definitions and produces a signal indicating that the triggering event has occurred; and a control component that initiates a responsive action in the welding device in response to the signal and assesses whether the responsive action causes a conflict with an existing condition of the welding device.