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List:       freebsd-standards
Subject:    Re: at utility and time format
From:       Garrett Wollman <wollman () khavrinen ! lcs ! mit ! edu>
Date:       2001-12-17 18:53:11
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<<On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:28:54 -0600, Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com> said:

> However, I'm still wondering about this. Given that atrun only gets
> called every five minutes, what's the point of trying to support
> seconds?

POSIX provides sufficient scheduling weasel-words to allow for
rounding up to the nearest five-minute boundary.  All it's requiring
you is to accept the format, not actually schedule the event so
precisely.

-GAWollman

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