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Restrict both day-of-week and day-of-month like vixie-cron

Open tintamarre opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

According to the cron specification, it is not possible to restrict both the day-of-week and the day-of-month simultaneously:

While normally the job is executed when the time/date specification fields all match the current time and date, there is one exception: if both "day of month" and "day of week" are restricted (not "*"), then either the "day of month" field (3) or the "day of week" field (5) must match the current day. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#cite_ref-posix_8-0

Although it is generally not possible to restrict both fields, there is a hacky workaround described here and working for vixie-cron.

Here is an example on cronguru restricting both day of month and day of week: https://crontab.guru/#42_5_/32,10-17__Tue

When using Croniter, this workaround doesn't seem to work. Is this the intended behavior?

Thanks ! Martin

tintamarre avatar Jul 08 '24 07:07 tintamarre