Udo Richter wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
this will allow defining timers that are more than a month in the future
Nice. Esp. since I already have a (deactivated) timer for Apr. 30 in my timers. ;)
While you're breaking compatibility anyway, please consider allowing bi-weekly timers that only fire every second (fourth?) week. This is a far more common case.
Format suggestion: MTWTFSS*n (fire on next matching day, then skip n times/weeks) MTWTFSS*n@YYYY-MM-DD (fire on YYYY-MM-DD, then skip n times/weeks)
I'm afraid this would make things overly complicated. I also have one timer that records a monthly show, but the distance between shows is not necessarily always exactly four weeks - sometimes it may well be five weeks, for instance. Therefore I have a weekly timer, and usually at the end of a show they announce when the next one will be broadcast - then I set the "first day" of that timer to the given date.
For anything more complicated there are tools like vdradmin, for instance.
Klaus