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Cron expressions are used everywhere.



To flesh this out more: Cron expressions are not just used on Unix boxes for actual cron; I use them most for scheduling gitlab CI jobs, IIRC Jenkins uses them, etc.


For better or worse the crontab syntax is the de facto way to match instants of time. And on that count it’s pretty darn good all things considered.




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