• umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well, systemd developers made one of the classic blunders a software developer can do: make a program that has to deal with time and dates. Every time I have to deal with timestamps I’m like “oh shit, here we go again”.

    Anyway, as I understood it the reason this is in systemd is because they wanted to replace cron, and it’s fine by me because cron has it’s own brain-hurt. (The cron syntax is something that always makes me squint real hard for a while.)

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      3 days ago

      Yeah and they actually added some usability in the form of that utility helping you debug what you’re doing. Pretty nice!