Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!sunic!chalmers!volvo!peter From: peter@vd.volvo.se (Peter Hkansson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Decoding CRONTAB Summary: How to expand a CRONTAB entry to nxt event Keywords: CRON crond Message-ID: <324@volvo.vd.volvo.se> Date: 16 Dec 89 16:10:03 GMT Reply-To: peter@volvo.UUCP (Peter Hakansson) Distribution: comp.unix.questions Organization: VTS Transportation Systems, A company in The VOLVO Group Lines: 17 the small green line- eater: (mums mums mums) I am involved in building a scoolplanning system where it is convinient to express 'preferrable times' something can occur. Looking at the way CRON expresses this i found this would be OK for us. However, to decode those strings seems tricky, maybe someone has done it before me (it is certenly done in crontab) and is willing to share it with me ? Otherwize hints would be appreciated. (sorry about the spelling, the phone lines does not like winter).