The chosen event occurred in the past

[acejacek]

I have lots of problems to schedule the cron job correctly. All the time I get message:

Runtime error: The chosen event occurred in the past; cannot wait a negative amount of time.

Which is funny, because I trigger event at 02:00, and sunrise is 08:51:11
Same goes for sunset: job scheduled at 12:00, sunset at 14:55.

Apparently, there are some problems when date is today.

I think it's obvious, if I wait for sunrise (without specific --date), I mean the next coming sunrise tomorrow morning. I can't process why this program assumes I care about sunrise which already happened today morning. Maybe some sort of --force flag will do?

[mfreeborn]

Thank you @acejacek - I'm not sure I agree that it's obvious --date refers to the next time the event occurs. There are too many edge cases, in my opinion, and I don't like to make assumptions about people's use cases.

The simplest and least degree of assumption is for --date to be "today" if it is not explicitly mentioned. If you want to schedule it for a specific day, it couldn't be simpler to pass that to the --date parameter. In fact, even allowing the user to skip the --date parameter at all is a luxury; it would be most clear to have it as a required option.

I'll close this because I don't see any problem with the current implementation.