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Re: next-week documented but not implemented
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
Re: next-week documented but not implemented |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:05:08 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Dale Mellor <no-reply@rdmp.org> writes:
> 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.
It sounds reasonable! Thank you for addressing that documentation
problem.
--
Maxim