From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:42:59 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: expand on the star…end/repetition time expressions X-Git-Tag: v246-rc1~442^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2edc7aea7a95dc0dc0fb3e9ef5ffbe413a477593;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: expand on the star…end/repetition time expressions And attempt to explain what is requested in #15030, but still be concise. Fixes: #15030 --- diff --git a/man/systemd.time.xml b/man/systemd.time.xml index dc1e78a1875..b4656b05d10 100644 --- a/man/systemd.time.xml +++ b/man/systemd.time.xml @@ -199,15 +199,14 @@ tomorrow Pacific/Auckland → Thu 2012-11-23 19:00:00 continuous weekdays. , and .. may be combined freely. - In the date and time specifications, any component may be - specified as * in which case any value will - match. Alternatively, each component can be specified as a list of - values separated by commas. Values may be suffixed with - / and a repetition value, which indicates that - the value itself and the value plus all multiples of the repetition value - are matched. Two values separated by .. may be used - to indicate a range of values; ranges may also be followed with - / and a repetition value. + In the date and time specifications, any component may be specified as * in + which case any value will match. Alternatively, each component can be specified as a list of values + separated by commas. Values may be suffixed with / and a repetition value, which + indicates that the value itself and the value plus all multiples of the repetition value are matched. + Two values separated by .. may be used to indicate a range of values; ranges may also + be followed with / and a repetition value, in which case the expression matches all + times starting with the start value, and continuing with all multiples of the repetition value relative + to the start value, ending at the end value the latest. A date specification may use ~ to indicate the last day(s) in a month. For example, *-02~03 means