From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:47:38 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron In-Reply-To: <201512230027.tBN0RK7A009917@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201512230027.tBN0RK7A009917@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Doug McIlroy wrote: > "cron comes from the prefix (greek?) for time. it should have been > chron, but i never could spell." Yep, from the Greek god of time, Chronos. > I edited Wikipedia to expunge the nonsense. Amusingly that makes the > article less "verifiable" because there had been literature citations > for the nonsense, but there is none for the fact. Does anyone actually believe Wikipedia these days? Any fool can update it, and they do... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."