DateTime::Cron::Simple(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation DateTime::Cron::Simple(3)

DateTime::Cron::Simple - Parse a cron entry and check against current time

use DateTime::Cron::Simple;
$c = DateTime::Cron::Simple->new($cron);
$boolean = $c->validate_time;
$c->new_cron($cron);

This module is a quick and dirty way to determine if a cron time format is valid for the current date and time.

A cron entry follows the cron format from crontab(5).

The validate_time function uses the current date and time for comparison, but will also accept a valid DateTime object as a parameter.

$c = DateTime::Cron::Simple->new('0-59/2 10,12 * * 5');

Creates a cron entry.

$c->new_cron($cron);

Updates the cron entry to the given argument.

$boolean = $c->validate_time;
$boolean = $c->validate_time($dt);

Validates a datetime against the cron entry. If the argument is ommitted, it validates against the current time ("DateTime-"now>).

_parse_cron_field
$data = $c->_parse_cron_field($field, $min, $max)


use DateTime::Cron::Simple;
$c = DateTime::Cron::Simple->new('0-59/2 10,12 * * 5');
if($c->validate_time) { ... }
$c->new_cron('* * 1 * 0');
if($c->validate_time) { ... }

DateTime::Event::Cron

It is very likely that this module will soon be deprecated. It was created without coordination with the developers of DateTime modules, which may be reached via

http://datetime.perl.org/
datetime@perl.org (the mailing list)

This module would better belong to the DateTime::Event namespace or else have its functionality incorporated into DateTime::Event::Cron. This release is transitional, while the right way to do it is being studied.

The original author of this module is

Brendan Fagan <suburbanantihero (at) yahoo (dot) com>.

At version 0.3, a full rewrite was done to set it free from license issues. The current maintainer is

Adriano Ferreira <ferreira (at) cpan (dot) org>.

Comments, bug reports, patches and flames are still appreciated.

Brendan Fagan holds the copyright from 2002 to 2006 over versions 0.1 and 0.2 of the distribution.

Copyright (C) 2006 by A. R. Ferreira

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

2024-02-07 perl v5.38.1