On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 00:29, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
That works, yes. The created timer is still is a fixed value, and it
gets automatically adjusted when the system time changes.
This is the example Lennart and I thought about when we considered
adding cron-like stuff to systemd's timer configs, but didn't want to
do silly things like scheduled checks for the actual time, so we
delayed this feature until such a notification becomes available.
Consider we want stuff like "wakeup every day at 3pm", the next wakeup
might be earlier than the timer we calculated last time, on system
time changes. We need to re-calculate it. This is necessary for all
repeating events.
Say we want to wakeup at 3pm, now it's 4pm, so we schedule it in 23
hours. Now the system time changes to 2pm, and we would expect to
wakeup in one hour, but we take 25.
Kay
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