From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-04-04T13:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible RubyQuiz idea

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!


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