NAME

Time::Crontab - parser for crontab date and time field

SYNOPSIS

use Time::Crontab;

my $time_cron = Time::Crontab->new('0 0 1 * *');
if ( $time_cron->match(time()) ) {
    do_cron_job();
}

DESCRIPTION

Time::Crontab is a parser for crontab date and time field. And it provides simple matcher.

CPAN already has DateTime::Event::Cron that depends on DateTime. Time::Crontab does not require DateTime or Time::Piece.

METHOD

new($crontab:Str)

Returns Time::Crontab object. If incorrect crontab string was given, Time::Crontab dies.

match($unix_timestamp:Num)

Returns whether or not the given unix timestamp matches the crontab Timestamps are truncated to minute resolution.

SUPPORTED SPECS

Field name   Allowed values  Allowed special characters
Minutes      0-59            * / , -
Hours        0-23            * / , -
Day of month 1-31            * / , -
Month        1-12 or JAN-DEC * / , -
Day of week  0-6 or SUN-SAT  * / , -

Predefined scheduling definitions are not supported. In month and day_of_week fields, Able to use the first three letters of day or month. But does not support range or list of the names.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Masahiro Nagano.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Masahiro Nagano <kazeburo@gmail.com>