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This file is part of systemd.
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Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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<refentry id="systemd.time">
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>systemd.time</title>
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<productname>systemd</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
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<surname>Poettering</surname>
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<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>systemd.time</refname>
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<refpurpose>Time and date specifications</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>In systemd, timestamps, time spans, and calendar
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events are displayed and may be specified in closely
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related syntaxes.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Displaying Time Spans</title>
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<para>Time spans refer to time durations. On display,
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systemd will present time spans as a space-separated
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series of time values each suffixed by a time
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unit.</para>
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<programlisting>2h 30min</programlisting>
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<para>All specified time values are meant to be added
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up. The above hence refers to 150 minutes.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Parsing Time Spans</title>
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<para>When parsing, systemd will accept the same
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time span syntax. Separating spaces may be omitted. The
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following time units are understood:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>usec, us</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>msec, ms</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>seconds, second, sec, s</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>minutes, minute, min, m</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>hours, hour, hr, h</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>days, day, d</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>weeks, week, w</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>months, month</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>years, year, y</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>If no time unit is specified, generally seconds
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are assumed, but some exceptions exist and are marked
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as such. In a few cases <literal>ns</literal>,
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<literal>nsec</literal> is accepted too, where the
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granularity of the time span allows for this.</para>
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<para>Examples for valid time span specifications:</para>
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<programlisting>2 h
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2hours
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48hr
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1y 12month
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55s500ms
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300ms20s 5day</programlisting>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Displaying Timestamps</title>
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<para>Timestamps refer to specific, unique points in
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time. On display, systemd will format these in the
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local timezone as follows:</para>
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<programlisting>Fri 2012-11-23 23:02:15 CET</programlisting>
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<para>The weekday is printed according to the locale
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choice of the user.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Parsing Timestamps</title>
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<para>When parsing systemd will accept a similar
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timestamp syntax, but excluding any timezone
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specification (this limitation might be removed
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eventually). The weekday specification is optional,
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but when the weekday is specified it must either be
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in the abbreviated (<literal>Wed</literal>) or
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non-abbreviated (<literal>Wednesday</literal>) English
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language form (case does not matter), and is not
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subject to the locale choice of the user. Either the
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date, or the time part may be omitted, in which case
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the current date or 00:00:00, resp., is assumed. The
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seconds component of the time may also be omitted, in
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which case ":00" is assumed. Year numbers may be
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specified in full or may be abbreviated (omitting the
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century).</para>
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<para>A timestamp is considered invalid if a weekday
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is specified and the date does not actually match the
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specified day of the week.</para>
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<para>When parsing, systemd will also accept a few
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special placeholders instead of timestamps:
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<literal>now</literal> may be used to refer to the
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current time (or of the invocation of the command
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that is currently executed). <literal>today</literal>,
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<literal>yesterday</literal>,
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<literal>tomorrow</literal> refer to 00:00:00 of the
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current day, the day before or the next day,
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respectively.</para>
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<para>When parsing, systemd will also accept relative
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time specifications. A time span (see above) that is
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prefixed with <literal>+</literal> is evaluated to the
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current time plus the specified time
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span. Correspondingly, a time span that is prefixed
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with <literal>-</literal> is evaluated to the current
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time minus the specified time span. Instead of
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prefixing the time span with <literal>+</literal> or
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<literal>-</literal>, it may also be suffixed with a
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space and the word <literal>left</literal> or
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<literal>ago</literal>.</para>
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<para>Finally, a timespan prefixed with
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<literal>@</literal> is evaluated relative to the UNIX
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time epoch 1st Jan, 1970, 00:00.</para>
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<para>Examples for valid timestamps and their
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normalized form (assuming the current time was
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2012-11-23 18:15:22):</para>
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<programlisting>Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13
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2012-11-23 11:12:13 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13
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2012-11-23 → Fri 2012-11-23 00:00:00
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12-11-23 → Fri 2012-11-23 00:00:00
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11:12:13 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13
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11:12 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:00
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now → Fri 2012-11-23 18:15:22
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today → Fri 2012-11-23 00:00:00
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yesterday → Fri 2012-11-22 00:00:00
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tomorrow → Fri 2012-11-24 00:00:00
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+3h30min → Fri 2012-11-23 21:45:22
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-5s → Fri 2012-11-23 18:15:17
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11min ago → Fri 2012-11-23 18:04:22
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@1395716396 → Tue 2014-03-25 03:59:56</programlisting>
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<para>Note that timestamps printed by systemd will not
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be parsed correctly by systemd, as the timezone
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specification is not accepted, and printing timestamps
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is subject to locale settings for the weekday while
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parsing only accepts English weekday names.</para>
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<para>In some cases, systemd will display a relative
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timestamp (relative to the current time, or the time
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of invocation of the command) instead or in addition
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to an absolute timestamp as described above. A
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relative timestamp is formatted as follows:</para>
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<para>2 months 5 days ago</para>
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<para>Note that any relative timestamp will also parse
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correctly where a timestamp is expected. (see above)</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Calendar Events</title>
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<para>Calendar events may be used to refer to one or
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more points in time in a single expression. They form
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a superset of the absolute timestamps explained above:</para>
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<programlisting>Thu,Fri 2012-*-1,5 11:12:13</programlisting>
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<para>The above refers to 11:12:13 of the first or
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fifth day of any month of the year 2012, given that it
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is a Thursday or Friday.</para>
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<para>The weekday specification is optional. If
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specified, it should consist of one or more English
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language weekday names, either in the abbreviated
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(Wed) or non-abbreviated (Wednesday) form (case does
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not matter), separated by commas. Specifying two
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weekdays separated by <literal>-</literal> refers to a
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range of continuous weekdays. <literal>,</literal> and
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<literal>-</literal> may be combined freely.</para>
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<para>In the date and time specifications, any
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component may be specified as <literal>*</literal> in
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which case any value will match. Alternatively, each
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component can be specified as a list of values separated
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by commas. Values may also be suffixed with
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<literal>/</literal> and a repetition value, which
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indicates that the value and all values plus multiples
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of the repetition value are matched.</para>
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<para>Either time or date specification may be
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omitted, in which case the current day and 00:00:00 is
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implied, respectively. If the second component is not
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specified, <literal>:00</literal> is assumed.</para>
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<para>Timezone names may not be specified.</para>
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<para>The special expressions
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<literal>hourly</literal>, <literal>daily</literal>,
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<literal>monthly</literal> and <literal>weekly</literal>
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may be used as calendar events which refer to
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<literal>*-*-* *:00:00</literal>, <literal>*-*-*
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00:00:00</literal>, <literal>*-*-01 00:00:00</literal> and
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<literal>Mon *-*-* 00:00:00</literal>,
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respectively.</para>
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<para>Examples for valid timestamps and their
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normalized form:</para>
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<programlisting> Sat,Thu,Mon-Wed,Sat-Sun → Mon-Thu,Sat,Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
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Mon,Sun 12-*-* 2,1:23 → Mon,Sun 2012-*-* 01,02:23:00
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Wed *-1 → Wed *-*-01 00:00:00
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Wed-Wed,Wed *-1 → Wed *-*-01 00:00:00
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Wed, 17:48 → Wed *-*-* 17:48:00
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Wed-Sat,Tue 12-10-15 1:2:3 → Tue-Sat 2012-10-15 01:02:03
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*-*-7 0:0:0 → *-*-07 00:00:00
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10-15 → *-10-15 00:00:00
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monday *-12-* 17:00 → Mon *-12-* 17:00:00
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Mon,Fri *-*-3,1,2 *:30:45 → Mon,Fri *-*-01,02,03 *:30:45
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12,14,13,12:20,10,30 → *-*-* 12,13,14:10,20,30:00
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mon,fri *-1/2-1,3 *:30:45 → Mon,Fri *-01/2-01,03 *:30:45
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03-05 08:05:40 → *-03-05 08:05:40
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08:05:40 → *-*-* 08:05:40
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05:40 → *-*-* 05:40:00
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Sat,Sun 12-05 08:05:40 → Sat,Sun *-12-05 08:05:40
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Sat,Sun 08:05:40 → Sat,Sun *-*-* 08:05:40
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2003-03-05 05:40 → 2003-03-05 05:40:00
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2003-03-05 → 2003-03-05 00:00:00
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03-05 → *-03-05 00:00:00
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hourly → *-*-* *:00:00
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daily → *-*-* 00:00:00
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monthly → *-*-01 00:00:00
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weekly → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00
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*:2/3 → *-*-* *:02/3:00</programlisting>
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<para>Calendar events are used by timer units, see
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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for details.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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