You are completely right with all of this.

I use Void Linux and I don’t use cron at all (it’s not even installed).

I create a service and schedule it with snooze – which is what cron should be.

@Jonas,

Thanks for the clarification, I will update the article with the recent changes to Ubuntu…

Please fix this in your article, there are questions of questions on stack exchange from people who ran into that, maybe these questions are from people who were confused after reading your article. At least I was.

(also, 30 is *not* the same as `monthly`, that’s the reason that an alias exists for monthly, but not for weekly/daily)

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1154426/anacron-running-running-my-daily-task-each-hour
[2] https://askubuntu.com/questions/511337/tell-me-where-is-mistake-in-anacron-task
[3] https://superuser.com/questions/1602153/why-does-this-anacron-job-run-hourly-not-daily

1. Why couldn’t add anacron’s extra functionality in cron, instead of creating anacron.
2. Why Linux people love these weird configuration files so much. Why not use a JSON format? Or something more structured anyway.
3. Why couldn’t they make anacron support a higher “resolution”, like cron does, instead of using a day as the maximum time-step.