crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.

[Edward C. Bennett]

In article <2935 at sun.uucp>, guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > >I tried it on my Sun and he is incorrect.  On a Sunday, I added two
> > >entries, one for day 7 and one for day 0, at the same time (a few minutes
> > >hence).  The one with day 7 ran, with day 0 didn't.  QED.
> > 
> > Sunday is 0 on my system (still 4.1 BSD, sigh).
> 
> I believe the V7 man page lied; it said the days went 1-7 with 1=Monday,
> when the actually went 0-6 with 0-Sunday.  The USG/USDL (people who brought
> you S3/S5) fixed the man page.  The CSRG at UCB (people who brought you
> 4.xBSD) fixed the *code* in 4.2.  They should have known better - if UNIX
> code and UNIX documentation disagree, 99 times out of 100 (if not more
> often), the documentation is wrong.  Thus, 4.2BSD's "cron" is out of sync
> with every other "cron" out there.
> 	Guy Harris

	On our 2.9BSD system, cron treats the days the same way localtime(3)
does, 0-6, 0=Sunday. Our manual page did indeed say 1-7, 1=Monday. A quick
edit of cron.8 fixed everything.

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