crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Mon Oct 28 23:00:29 AEST 1985


In article <2935 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
> I believe the V7 man page lied; it said the days went 1-7 with 1=Monday,
> when the actually went 0-6 with 0-Sunday.  The USG/USDL (people who brought
> you S3/S5) fixed the man page.  The CSRG at UCB (people who brought you
> 4.xBSD) fixed the *code* in 4.2.  They should have known better . . . .

Do not be too hard on them:  at least they did something about it.

The solution now is probably to make 0=7=Sunday everywhere.
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