How can I specify time in CRON considering YEAR?

Question

My task is to specify time in CRON considering YEAR field. How can i do it, or do u know any stuff which can help me on my linux server? thx

Answer 1

Crontab (5) file format has no YEAR field. You could try running a cron job @yearly (at 00:00 on New Year's day) which looks at the current year using date(1) and updates the current crontab file to one appropriate for the new year.