crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.
trb at haddock.UUCP
trb at haddock.UUCP
Wed Oct 30 02:17:00 AEST 1985
>>>> By the way, the man page for cron(8) lies. It says that the
>>>> days are numbered 1-7 with 1=Monday. The days are actually
>>>> numbered 0-6 with 0=Sunday.
This problem has been around for a long time. Numbering weekdays with
Sunday==0 is a pretty alien idea to most of us, I think. As long as
we're stuck with cron's day numbering scheme, I'd say that the safe way
to fix it is to hack your cron to accept both 0 and 7 for Sunday.
Then your documentation will be right, no matter how many times people
fix it.
Andrew Tannenbaum Interactive Boston, MA 617-247-1155
(Not masscomp!trb, ima!trb. Same person, different address.)
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