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📖What it means
The clock that fires scheduled work on the machine. Durable across restarts, which is exactly why scheduled work belongs there rather than in a session that ends when its terminal closes.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Daemon
Cron starts something and it exits; a daemon never exits.
Not: Trigger
Cron is one kind of trigger — the time-based one.
🗣️Also called
timerschedulerclock