From 8ea803516e4a4265a77d026f740c272cd60107a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Douglas Christman <DouglasChristman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:05:10 -0500
Subject: calendarspec: add support for scheduling timers at the end of the
 month

"*-*~1"       => The last day of every month
"*-02~3..5"   => The third, fourth, and fifth last days in February
"Mon 05~07/1" => The last Monday in May

Resolves #3861
---
 man/systemd.time.xml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/systemd.time.xml b/man/systemd.time.xml
index 47229b4a4e..fb13ea52ff 100644
--- a/man/systemd.time.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.time.xml
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@
     are matched.  Each component may also contain a range of values
     separated by <literal>..</literal>.</para>
 
+    <para>A date specification may use <literal>~</literal> to indicate the
+    last day(s) in a month. For example, <literal>*-02~03</literal> means
+    "the third last day in February," and <literal>Mon *-05~07/1</literal>
+    means "the last Monday in May."</para>
+
     <para>The seconds component may contain decimal fractions both in
     the value and the repetition. All fractions are rounded to 6
     decimal places.</para>
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