@xahteiwi @lambisio I’ll grant you this one, but, like,...

@xahteiwi @lambisio I’ll grant you this one, but, like, that’s just the consequence of being able to select *either* a date or a weekday, which isn’t too wild.

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Florian Haas

@rixx Right, "do something every Friday the 13th" sounds very useful too.

@lambisio

27 October at 22:21 | Open on mastodon.social

lambisio

@xahteiwi @rixx To my recollection crontab can do that.

28 October at 13:12 | Open on chilemasto.casa

rixx

@lambisio @xahteiwi Not sure – I thought "* * 13 * 5" meant "both on Fridays and on the 13th of each month", and https://crontab.guru/#0_0_13_*_5 agrees.

In any case a huge advantage of systemd timers is your ability to query them for next / scheduled / past runs like this fwiw.

28 October at 14:30 | Open on chaos.social

lambisio

@rixx @xahteiwi That's weird. I mean, 30 6 * * * means "at 6:30" and not "every half hour and also at 6:00". So it'd be extra weird if dow/dom were specialcased that way.

But even then, that doesn't justify "solving" the problem by subsuming it into systemd. Pretty sure there's like at leats other 200 tools to do the job.

(No, NTP is *not* one of them!)

28 October at 20:10 | Open on chilemasto.casa

rixx

@lambisio @xahteiwi Right, well, in that case, I’m afraid I have no justification to offer (lol)

28 October at 21:14 | Open on chaos.social

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