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Working with systemd timers - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
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Explain?
Cron already exists and is established as the solution in this space. It's also used as the model for a lot of other timer services outside the Linux kernel.
cron is quite inadequate for condition based scheduling. Instead of million obscure ways to achieve this inside the command that cron executes, systemd timers give us a standard ONE way to do things.
I feel like systemd timers follow unix philosophy better than cron at this day and age.
Have you read the article? The fourth paragraph lists improvements systemd timers bring over cron:
All of these issues are addressed with systemd services and timers, as the authors explains in details.