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From: jso@edison.UUCP (John Owens)
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Subject: Re: Re: crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 12:34:09 EST
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> Now as we seem to agree about facts, can we decide whether there is
> reason enough to *change* the original definition in an existing
> operating system, as was suggested in the first place? If there is
> any risk for incompatibility with earlier software, I'm afraid that
> would do more harm than good, but perhaps some systems development
> expert could make out the details?
> -- 
> Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden

If anyone is planning on changing cron, don't just change the numbers!
Leave the numbers the same so you don't confuse everyone, and allow
"Mon", "Tue",...  Also, "Jan", "Feb", etc...

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			   John Owens
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