[systemd-devel] Feature request: schedule jobs for last day of month

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:25:57PM -0800, David Strauss wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > I'm probably missing something, but if a start date and a count are set,
> > then it should be possible to calculate the next event (or if all are
> > now past) based on this data?
> 
> Yes. I'm just saying that because systemd doesn't track timer runs
> across boots or since the initial start of the unit, my code
> calculates the recurrence sequence using the current time as the
> sequence start (DTSTART in iCal).
Hm, but couldn't we add field for the sequence start?

Zbyszek

> This means that an event configured to occur even twice will occur
> forever. Also, setting an event to occur only once will cause it to
> never run because DTSTART is considered the first occurrence, and my
> code skips it because, otherwise, the timer would schedule itself to
> run immediately every time systemd asks for the next start time.
> 
> In short, don't use COUNT. The rest of the RECUR vocabulary is fine.