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next-week documented but not implemented
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Dale Mellor |
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next-week documented but not implemented |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:16:17 +0000 |
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Evolution 3.46.0 |
Akira:
>> I've been transitioning to guix and was trying to setup some
>> automatic backup scripts at daily, weekly, and monthly
>> intervals. However, it seems while the documentation lists
>> 'next-week' and 'next-week-from' as valid functions to specify the
>> job interval, it appears that they are not implemented. It would
>> be great to have such functions available. In the meantime
>> '(next-day '(1 8 15 22 29))' seems like it'll be sufficient for my
>> purposes.
Efraim:
>> 'next-week-from' and 'next-week' are documented in doc/mcron.texi,
but
>> in (src mcron job-specifier) neither is implemented.
Having given this some thought, I've come to the conclusion that
there are too many ambiguities to implement this function (what is
'next week': seven days from now, the start of the day seven days from
now, next Sunday, next Monday, ...?) So I have removed the existing
references from the documentation, and added a section to the extended
examples chapter explaining how variants of weekly behaviour can be
achieved.
Thanks for your interest in mcron!
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