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Note discrepancy between cron formats
The README links to crontab.org, which provides examples with 5 fields and minute granularity. node-cron expects the leftmost value to describe the granularity in seconds. This inconsistency led me to misinterpret the running times in a cron.CronJob.
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Ranges. E.g. 1-3,5
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[Read up on cron patterns here](http://crontab.org).
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[Read up on cron patterns here](http://crontab.org). Note the examples in the
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link have five fields, and 1 minute as the finest granularity, but this library
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has six fields, with 1 second as the finest granularity.
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Parameter Based
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`CronJob`
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