title: Run a script on a specific date?
body: <p>I want to run a php script on christmas that will email my family and friends merry christmas while I am out of town and un-able to contact them.  </p>
  
  <p>The way I just set it up was I have a cron run the script every day, and then the script checks to see if the date is Dec 25th.  If it is then the script sends the emails out.  </p>
  
  <p>Is there a more elegant way to do this.  Or a way to have linux just send run the script on the 25th rather than checking everyday.  I know it's not that big of a deal, but still just for the sake of knowing.</p>