alt Hacker NewsThe first one works in that specific case, but not more generically. For example, "Last Monday in February", or "last Monday of the month" for multiple months unless they're all 30 or all 31 days.
The first one works in that specific case, but not more generically. For example, "Last Monday in February", or "last Monday of the month" for multiple months unless they're all 30 or all 31 days.
This was fun to cook up and may (or may not!) break if one's locale changes:
I bet one could do something similar to determine if we're at the "last $NAMED_WEEKDAY in the month" by counting ahead a week and seeing if the month name changes.If I were doing this for real, I'd either switch to a more capable cron, or take a serious try at the date math and then wrap it up as a standalone helper. Or I guess I'd look to see if someone already built that helper. ...I guess...