On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:48:18 -0600
> schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com>:
>
> [...]
> > Are you really sure "0/2:00" means "every 2 hours"? I don't see an explicit
> > mention in man 7 systemd.time that 0 means "*-*-* 00:00:00". It really
> > worked bi-hourly before?
>
> Yes, it definitely worked before (I've been running this and other timers for
> about a month). I don't remember how I inferred that rule, but I think it was
> this bit from systemd.time(7):
>
>     "Either time or date specification may be omitted, in which case the
>     current day and 00:00:00 is implied, respectively. If the second component
>     is not specified, ":00" is assumed."
>
> But I don't see any definition for these components, so maybe I'm wrong and my
> timer only works by accident.
>
> > Either way, it cretainly could be a bug.
>
> Perhaps, since it's back to the way it was before:
>
>     # systemctl list-timers
>     NEXT                         LEFT          LAST                         PASSED             UNIT                           ACTIVATES
>     Mo 2015-03-30 02:00:00 CEST  1h 44min left Mo 2015-03-30 00:00:00 CEST  15min ago          backup-hourly.timer            backup@hourly.service
>     [...]

Perhaps the bug is only in how systemctl presents the information.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México