• exu@feditown.com
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    30 days ago

    You need a calendar and time handling anyways for logging purposes and to set timers correctly. It’s likely not that much extra work exposing that functionality.

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      30 days ago

      No, UNIX philosophy demands that every single one of those things is one or more separate things and that half of them are poorly or not at all maintained. Just like God intended.

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        29 days ago

        Finding the next super holiday is a core system feature I could survive without. 🎉

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          29 days ago

          Well, date time stuff for a system working with timers and scheduling actions might be pretty useful…