[yau8edq12i]

I'm not quite sure why you felt pressed to write this long-winded response to something I didn't write. I never said that systemd is easy. I said that if someone is running *BSD, today, in 2024, they'll cope with cron's syntax.

I'll still reply to one part:

> Oh, I see I can use "hourly" but it turns out that's syntactic sugar for:

> *-*-* *:00:00

>Is that really any easier than the cron equivalent?

> 0 * * * *

...Yes? Ask someone who's not familiar either with cron or systemd to guess what each one mean, with the context that it's supposed to be something related to dates and times. If you're vaguely familiar with how dates are usually written down, and that a star is a wildcard, you can immediately guess that the first one means "any year, any month, any day, any hour, at the first minute, first second". The cron one? It's anyone's guess.

[js2]

Hah, that's fair. I inferred from your comment the corollary that systemd is not arcane, and thought "oh, it's just arcane differently," hence my long-winded reply.