I suspect we are going to see some upheaval in core services in the coming years...I'll be curious to see if systemd.timer takes the place of cron or if somethi

I suspect we are going to see some upheaval in core services in the coming years...I'll be curious to see if systemd.timer takes the place of cron or if something else does. There is a good argument to be made for at least updating cron. Link for systemd.timer: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time... And some discussion of using it to replace cron: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers#As_a_cron_replacement https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers#As_a_cro...