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by imtringued 18 days ago
>But I guess you're saying the ability to trigger the systemd timer off-schedule is the difference? Yeah, it's annoying with cron to have to temporarily set the trigger two minutes into the future. :-P

>Not sure adding that feature justifies a complete rewrite, but certainly a nice addition.

If there is a feature that justifies using a completely different tool it's obviously this one.

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Are you making the assumption that it's impossible to add that feature to cron?

You should not see a missing killer feature and go directly to the conclusion of rewriting.

Sure, greenfield is fun. So there's that.