I am finally considering moving an older application which contains a
lot of scheduled tasks over to the CronTab plugin for OBD. I have a
quick question I was hoping could be answered since I do not have much
experience using cron jobs on *nix. Specifically, when are the hourly,
daily, monthly and weekly tasks run? My assumption would at 0:01 for
hourly and 00:00:01 would be the execution time for the daily tasks
and similar for the monthly and weekly.

The reason I ask is I have a task which needs to run on the first day
of the month within the first hour to gather sales specific
information. Would I be better off running the task the task hourly
and then checking to see what day of the month and what hour it is
currently processing in order to execute my business logic?

Thanks for the help in advance.

-JSLucido

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