On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 9:22 AM Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:


Occurs to me that "the last second of today" is approximately a million times
more likely as a scheduling target than "the next to last second"; they should
drop 23:59:5*8* instead.

You’re probably one of those folks who wonders why all the default Unix daily cron jobs were at 2 AM (which breaks twice a year) and not, say, 4 AM, too.

I certainly am.

Matthew