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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.
Message-ID: <2006@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 08:00:29 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2006
Posted: Mon Oct 28 08:00:29 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <2935@sun.uucp> guy@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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