Subject: Re: bug#75843: shepherd: cron-string->calendar-event does not accept "*/15 * * * *"

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:27:04 +0100

Hello,

Tomas Volf <[email-masked]> skribis:

> $ guix shell guile shepherd guile-fibers -- guile -c '(use-modules (shepherd service timer)) (cron-string->calendar-event "*/15 * * * *")'

[...]

>   1. &message: "\"*/15 * * * *\": invalid minutes cron field"

Fixed in 6f3860e492e078c5579e2117b04742252be81562.

> It seems to work with 0-59/15, so there possibly is some bug in handling
> the *.

Yup, that’s a good workaround until 1.0.2 is out (presumably in the
coming days).

Thanks,
Ludo’.