crontab: Sunday=7, not 0.

[Ted Medin]

In article <379 at erisun.UUCP> leif at erisun.UUCP (Leif Samuelsson) writes:
>In article <2006 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) 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.
>
>If anyone decides to write a brand new version of Unix, then
>this should be put straight once and for all. It is now over 15
>years since ISO decided that Monday is the first day of the
>week. Hence, we can number the days 0-6 or 1-7, but Monday
>should be first!
>
 For several hundred years sunday has been the first day of the
week. Look at any calandar.