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by aaomidi 633 days ago
So many of these restrictions feels arbitrary. Not supporting comments? Why?

Assuming UTC for tz is not weird and cron users expect it,

I guess why even support this specific syntax if the crons need to be edited to fit how this code expects them? There may have been better options if you were going full green field.

Good work though!

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> Assuming UTC for tz is not weird and cron users expect it,

That would definitely be weird and unexpected. My crons are interpreted with respect to my system's configured time zone, which seems way more expected than just using UTC.

Taking a datetime and just assuming it's UTC is often a mistake. It's why the TC39 Temporal proposal (overhauling datetimes for Javascript) won't let you silently do it.

Sure that’s an alternative too.