Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!chris 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 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:24:01 EST References: <704@adobe.UUCP> <187@l5.uucp> <491@ttidcb.UUCP> <2935@sun.uucp> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 13 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. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu