Comment 2 for bug 1836475

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: update-notifier-common weekly cron job runs at the same time for all computers across the globe

The design of cron.weekly is such that it would be wrong to vary its time of day, and it would be awkward to add a random sleep within the cron.weekly script itself for this (though we have done such things in the past). I think we will want to move this to a systemd timer unit instead.