Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!l5!gnu From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: crontab: Sunday=7, not 0. Message-ID: <187@l5.uucp> Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 01:10:45 EDT Article-I.D.: l5.187 Posted: Wed Oct 9 01:10:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 08:03:53 EDT References: <704@adobe.UUCP> Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco Lines: 8 Shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) wrote: > 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.