Re: [CentOS] lunar notation in crontab

2015-12-06 Thread Gabriele Pohl
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 02:25:53 -0800 Alice Wonder wrote: > On 12/06/2015 02:23 AM, ken wrote: > > Crontab offers many refined facilities for Western calendaring, but none > > for traditional Eastern-- lunar-- designations. > > This could be very useful in biology where a lot

Re: [CentOS] lunar notation in crontab

2015-12-06 Thread Alice Wonder
On 12/06/2015 02:23 AM, ken wrote: Crontab offers many refined facilities for Western calendaring, but none for traditional Eastern-- lunar-- designations. So for example, if one wants specify regular occurring events on full moons or on new moons, there is no way to do this. Emacs (a text

[CentOS] lunar notation in crontab

2015-12-06 Thread ken
Crontab offers many refined facilities for Western calendaring, but none for traditional Eastern-- lunar-- designations. So for example, if one wants specify regular occurring events on full moons or on new moons, there is no way to do this. Emacs (a text processor!?) accomplishes this. The