Re: cron/Launchd Editor

Subject: Re: cron/Launchd Editor

From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:32:50 -0700

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On 2009-09-22, at 12:18:43, Robert Poland wrote:

I take it that the use of the zero in the following has also been depreciated???

<key>Day</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>Month</key>
<integer>0</integer>

Hi Bob,

Let's note that the word is "deprecated" not "depreciated". However I don't think either of these terms apply here.

As mentioned previously, the Day and Hour are zero-based but the Month and Year are 1-based. In these StartCalendarInterval dictionaries, you should only supply what is needed. What is not specified is treated as a wildcard (i.e., means "every"). So:

<dict>
   <key>Hour</key>
   <integer>9</integer>
   <key>Minute</key>
   <integer>59</integer>
</dict>

means the 59th minute of the 9th hour of _every_ month of _every_ year. The documentation for these values is at <x-man-page://5/crontab> on page 1.

Philip Aker
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