[ILUG] the first day of the week?

[David Howe]

On Wed, March 4, 2009 6:40 pm, Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - wrote:

> In the Irish Civil Service (no jokes about that please).
> Day 1 of the working week is Sunday - no I have not been one since the
> early 1980's.
>
> man date gives you Monday

But if you read down the man page, day 0 is sunday, so there is agreement
between "cron" and "date". This is a relief as I know cron when used for
emails "charset=" will default to locale.

"%u     day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday"

or more altenatively:

"%w     day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday"

So there is some consistency in day of the week and cron. Mind you day 1
is Monday and day 0 is Sunday seems to be pretty universally agreed. Which
is first is up to you.

David
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