Cron question

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mark_baldwin
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Blackburn, United Kingdom
Joined: 19 May 2012

I have just started using Cron with the livebox after struggling with googlecal reliability.

I have used Cron in the past (back in the days of looking after a few VAX VMS machines) and thought I understood the syntax (it's not difficult) or so I thought.

To me this line

00 10 * * 6-7 aliasmsg "thermostat 19.0"

means that an alias message wil be sent to set the thernostat to 19.0 on Saturday and Sunday at 10am

So why did my heating fire up at 19.0 at 10am today, Friday?

allanayr
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Ayr, United Kingdom
Joined: 25 Sep 2011
Sounds right to me, that's

Sounds right to me, that's pretty well what I use.

Day of the week is a bit ambiguous 0 and 7 are both sunday. You could try sat and sun.

mark_baldwin
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Blackburn, United Kingdom
Joined: 19 May 2012
I'll just see what happens

I'll just see what happens tomorrow, maybe it needs time to setle in ;)

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