On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:24:10PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Jordan suggested changing the meaning of the fields so that date and
> day of week are applied together. I guess if there's a new expression
I hate the current cron time specification scheme.
> that allows you to give either logical expressions or some new syntax
> that's obviously distinct (i.e., not just a reinterpretation of the
> existing fields, but a new and distinct set of features), then that's
> sufficient.
I'd much rather have something closer to a natural language for
specifying when to run a job.
I'd like to be able to express times like:
every other monday starting on 2008-05-26 at 10:00
every monday at 10:00
every second monday of the month at 10:00
every 5th of the month at 10:00
once on 2008-05-26 at 10:00
once on 2008-05-26, 2008-06-11, ..., at 10:00
...
I'll think of a syntax that can be expressed in ABNF.
Nico
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