Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi
> <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>
>> Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- 
>> you
>> are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them.  Yes, that means numbers
>> will not
>> be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the
>> hair-tearing
>> that =will= ensue when using it bites you.
>
> Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never
> seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value.

I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect
(like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal.