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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:53:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com>
Cc:        "standards@FreeBSD.ORG" <standards@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: at utility and time format
Message-ID:  <200112171853.fBHIrBb35950@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3C1CE7E6.F0D7B984@attbi.com>
References:  <3C1CC516.9AA6914B@attbi.com> <3C1CE7E6.F0D7B984@attbi.com>

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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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