[TUHS] etymology of cron

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> "cron comes from the prefix (greek?) for time. it should have been 
> chron, but i never could spell."

Yep, from the Greek god of time, Chronos.

> I edited Wikipedia to expunge the nonsense. Amusingly that makes the 
> article less "verifiable" because there had been literature citations 
> for the nonsense, but there is none for the fact.

Does anyone actually believe Wikipedia these days?  Any fool can update 
it, and they do...

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