Any other alternative to at

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:50:38 -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Could you tell us WHY you don't want to use "at"? Scheduling jobs is
>> exactly and precisely what it is designed to do!  
>
>For many many other tasks, there are usually multiple alternatives
>that can achieve almost the same things with some variants. For
>example, there are different programming languages, or there are
>different `ls`.
>
>It looks weird to me that there would be no alternative to `at`.