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On 4/4/06, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>
> > On 4/3/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> >> This might be too easy, it's JEG2's call.
> >>
> >> Read in an ordinary crontab file and print out a list of
> >> jobs that will run in the next N minutes.
> >
> > Fairly easy, but with some interesting edge cases (t + N crossing an
> > hour, day, month, or year boundary; dealing with leap years; dealing
> > with summer time/winter time switches).
>
> not to mention cron supports variables, ranges, wildcards, and lists!
>
>
> -a
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> - h.h. the 14th dali lama
>
>
Rewriting cron in ruby

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