User blog comment:Purplatypus/Let's Figure out Capitalization!/@comment-24672610-20150213220655/@comment-24150802-20150213232835

"Cron ... entirely depends on how the developers intend for it to be used. Is it solely used to refer to the scheduling software? Or is it a metaphysical concept and being used as a fancy synonym for 'daybreak'" -- I'm pretty sure there was no specific intention for it. I think the early developers were just using the term in something similar to its normal unix sense to describe a regular daily process, and the term leached out into the wider user base. If we were doing the game over from scratch, we'd probably pick a different term for it.

Also, FYI, HabitRPG's cron is not done with an actual unix cron process. It's done by HabitRPG's code - each time you use HabitRPG, it checks to see if this is the first time since your Custom Day Start time, and if so, it runs the "cron" process.