I think more than noted, they must be fixed since we want the sytnax to be equivalent to official cron notation. Thanks for pointing this out.
Massimo On Mar 21, 5:36 pm, Rowdy <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been implementing some cron jobs for my app, and was surprised to > find they did not execute this morning. > > The web2py documentation on cron notes that the cron schedule is as > defined on the following page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#crontab_syntax > > with some extensions for web2py. However there are some fairly > significant differences: > > 1. Day of week abbreviations "mon", "tue" etc. are not recognised by > web2py's cron (mainly because Python's time.localtime() returns a number > representing day of week, and this is not converted or mapped to the > three character abbreviation anywhere). > > 2. The Wikipedia page notes that Sunday is week day 0, but Python's > time.localtime() returns Monday as week day 0. > > It would be advantageous if these discrepancies could be noted in the > web2py cron documentation. > > Rowdy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
