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    [–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago (14 children)

    Usually such things have a simple explanation. systemd does a lot with time and date, for example scheduling tasks. It's quite obvious that it has this capabilities, when you think about it.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I thought the same, but didn't we already have things like chron syntax for this? Systemd didn't have to build its own library.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Systemd's method is more powerful than Cron syntax.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

    Aight, didn't know that. I cannot yet imagine any scheduled task that would require anything more advanced than cron (or a similar standalone syntax), but I'll just trust you with that one.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Can you tell Cron to catch up on the things that should've happened but didn't because the system was off?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

    I think fcron and anacron can do that

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