31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
3:52 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:35 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I agree with the original poster: why doesn't his work, which says 6 in the location for day of week, which is Sat.? I'd think it meet the criteria "it's somewhere between the 1st and the 7th of the month, and it's a Sat", and that I think should be the same as yours....
As Keith said, it's because the conditions are OR'd. A careful reading of crontab(5) shows that the algorithm is [minute AND hour AND (restricted day of week OR restricted day of month) AND month]. Day of week and day of month only restrict independently when one or both is "*".