[plug] Crontab

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Russell Steicke wrote:

> A better idea (IMHO) would be to use the week number, which is available
> with a %U, %V or %W expando in the date command's format string. ie

Yes, but even better to use an absolute week number, and avoid the year
changeover problem.

 perl -e 'if ( int( time() / (7*24*3600))%2){print "odd\n"}'

> This way you don't have to keep state lying around in your filesystem
> between runs.

A good principle.


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