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Re:A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday August 30, 2021 @08:26PM (#28362619)
To flesh this out more: Cron expressions are not just used on Unix boxes for actual cron; I use them most for scheduling gitlab CI jobs, IIRC Jenkins uses them, etc.
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Re:A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions by Spivak on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:36PM (#28363038)
For better or worse the crontab syntax is the de facto way to match instants of time. And on that count it’s pretty darn good all things considered.
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