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[Octavian Damiean <mainerror@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/16/2013 05:47 PM, Thomas Long II wrote:
> I'm not any sort of programmer but I've been using Linux for quite a
> while & have enjoyed testing out the Ubuntu Touch builds as they come.
>   Anyhow, I'm wondering if utilizing the cron daemon would be a good
> solution to the alarm clock timer since it's how Linux/Unix admins often
> schedule maintenance tasks & other jobs on servers/desktops?  The app
> could write a line to the crontab specifying when to later trigger the
> alarm actions.  Just a thought, there may be better ways of doing this
> in the SDK that I'm not familiar with but thought I'd chime in with an idea.
>
> Tom

Exactly what I was thinking. This sounds like a very reasonable solution 
in my opinion.

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