I added a few command line flags that I found useful. Submitting them
here in case you do to.

Thanks!

jpfeiffer16 (2):
  add human readable and absolute options
  println, not print

 mnc.go | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-- 
2.45.2

From: jpfeiffer16 <joepfeiffer16@gmail.com>

- Human readable outputs default formatted date-time
- Absolute outputs the date-time of the next cronjob instead of
  time-till interval.
- Change deprecated call to ioutils. use io instead.
---
 mnc.go | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mnc.go b/mnc.go
index 43b8b2b..099b300 100644
--- a/mnc.go
+++ b/mnc.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"io/ioutil"
+	"io"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
@@ -13,13 +13,17 @@ import (
 	"github.com/influxdata/cron"
 )
 
+var absolute *bool;
+var human    *bool;
+
 func init() {
-	verbose := flag.Bool("v", false, "display log output")
+	verbose  := flag.Bool("v", false, "display log output")
+	absolute  = flag.Bool("a", false, "display absolute time for next cron job")
+	human     = flag.Bool("r", false, "display time in human readable format")
 	flag.Parse()
 
-	if *verbose {
-	} else {
-		log.SetOutput(ioutil.Discard)
+	if !*verbose {
+		log.SetOutput(io.Discard)
 		log.SetFlags(0)
 	}
 }
@@ -41,16 +45,30 @@ func main() {
 			if e != nil {
 				log.Fatal(e)
 			}
-			i := int(t.Sub(n).Seconds())
-			if i < m {
-				m = i
+			if *absolute {
+				if *human {
+					fmt.Print(t.String())
+				} else {
+					fmt.Print(t.Unix())
+				}
+			} else {
+				delta := t.Sub(n);
+				if *human {
+					fmt.Print(delta.String())
+				} else {
+					i := int(delta.Seconds())
+					if i < m {
+						m = i
+					}
+					log.Print(i)
+					fmt.Println(m)
+				}
 			}
-			log.Print(i)
 		} else {
-			log.Print(e)
+			log.Fatal(e)
+			fmt.Println(m)
 		}
 	}
 
-	fmt.Println(m)
 
 }
-- 
2.45.2

From: jpfeiffer16 <joepfeiffer16@gmail.com>

---
 mnc.go | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mnc.go b/mnc.go
index 099b300..17ddd87 100644
--- a/mnc.go
+++ b/mnc.go
@@ -47,20 +47,20 @@ func main() {
 			}
 			if *absolute {
 				if *human {
-					fmt.Print(t.String())
+					fmt.Println(t.String())
 				} else {
-					fmt.Print(t.Unix())
+					fmt.Println(t.Unix())
 				}
 			} else {
 				delta := t.Sub(n);
 				if *human {
-					fmt.Print(delta.String())
+					fmt.Println(delta.String())
 				} else {
 					i := int(delta.Seconds())
 					if i < m {
 						m = i
 					}
-					log.Print(i)
+					log.Println(i)
 					fmt.Println(m)
 				}
 			}
-- 
2.45.2

Hey, this seems like a patchset that is an earlier version of another
patchset in this mailing list. I am marking this patchset as superseded. Please 
ping me in irc (my nick is anjan) if I am mistaken.

Thank you for your contribution.

Best,
Anjandev Momi