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by dqv 1695 days ago
It's really about trading off something I understand fairly well (a script I wrote) and something I have questions about. Since it's not a particularly important problem and I'm more likely to make errors in cron, I'd rather have everything visible in a self-contained script.

For something important, I would look at it completely differently by testing it:

- What happens if I have a scheduled cronjob running every day at a certain time, but I want to override it for one specific day and have that job run later? (e.g. how is it accomplished so that I can maintain the default behavior while overriding and opening later on specific days)

- How can I make different commands run in different timezones? (as it stands now I find conflicting information about this)

- What happens if my machine lost power when the job needed to run? (it looks like it just never runs the script)

- Can I input a specific time and test if cron will set open for that specific time? (this doesn't seem possible)