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Re:Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the... by wkdneidbwf on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:16PM (#32967029)
an excellent example of how not to do things. if you need something esoteric enough that no one is going to grok the crontab without thought then you use something else.
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Re:Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the... by tenplusfive on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:36AM (#32969831)
Sometimes you have constraints and are limited to crontabs. For example when you are using autoscaling on AWS EC2 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ec2-au...).

I know, with eventbridge and lambdas this problem could be alleviated a bit, since eventbridge uses cron syntax but with some added bells and whistles ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-...) which would make the expression for the first monday of each month much easier to write.

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