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Subject: Re: Re: crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 11:17:00 EST
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>>>> 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.

This problem has been around for a long time.  Numbering weekdays with
Sunday==0 is a pretty alien idea to most of us, I think.  As long as
we're stuck with cron's day numbering scheme, I'd say that the safe way
to fix it is to hack your cron to accept both 0 and 7 for Sunday.
Then your documentation will be right, no matter how many times people
fix it.

	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Boston, MA   617-247-1155
	(Not masscomp!trb, ima!trb.  Same person, different address.)