Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!haral From: haral@ttidcb.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: crontab: Sunday=7, not 0. Message-ID: <491@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 21:55:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcb.491 Posted: Tue Oct 22 21:55:18 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 24-Oct-85 06:20:35 EDT References: <704@adobe.UUCP> <187@l5.uucp> Reply-To: haral@ttidcb.UUCP (Haral Tsitsivas) Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 13 Summary: In article <187@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >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. Sunday is 0 on my system (still 4.1 BSD, sigh).