[Bug 1280808] [NEW] Support for afterwards execution of missing jobs

[Sworddragon]

Public bug reported:

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 and maybe cron
can get the ability to run missing jobs on booting like anacron. The
question why I'm not using anacron: It has limitations as it is not a
full time deamon and hasn't the precision of cron. For example if I'm
defining a job to run every day at 02:30 but the computer gets a power
loss at 2:29 and is online at 2:31 it would be nice if cron does
calculate on startup if there were jobs that had to be executed. For
this case cron needs to store the last execution time of a job and an
extra column on the job entry as option list to en-/disable this
feature.

** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Support for afterwards execution of missing jobs

Status in “cron” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 and maybe cron
  can get the ability to run missing jobs on booting like anacron. The
  question why I'm not using anacron: It has limitations as it is not a
  full time deamon and hasn't the precision of cron. For example if I'm
  defining a job to run every day at 02:30 but the computer gets a power
  loss at 2:29 and is online at 2:31 it would be nice if cron does
  calculate on startup if there were jobs that had to be executed. For
  this case cron needs to store the last execution time of a job and an
  extra column on the job entry as option list to en-/disable this
  feature.

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