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From: volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
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Date: 15 Aug 90 20:57:54 GMT
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In article <1489@hagbard.dc.luth.se>, bj@dc.luth.se (B|rje Josefsson) writes:
|>Slightly a side question according to the Subject:, but how to setup a
|>command for execution on the LAST day of the month ONLY? 
|>
|>I could use:
|>            0 0 31 1 * command
|>            0 0 28 2 * command
|>            0 0 31 3 * command
|>            and so on
|>but that will not work on leap years...
|>
|>--Borje

Set the date on your machine to one day ahead of the real date, and tell
cron to run your application on the first of each month. ( 1/2 :-) )
                
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Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr@crd.ge.com