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Added short explanation of fields that start with 0 or 1.

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@@ -36,12 +36,16 @@ a cron job are as follows:
and that the acceptable values for each field are:
``0-59 0-23 1-31 0-11 0-6 `filepath/command```
``0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-6 `filepath/command```
Note that order matters. Knowing this, we can see that the output of
Note that order matters, and that the first element is 0 for the minute, hour,
and day of the week fields, while the day of the month and month
field begin at 1.
Knowing this, we can see that the output of
``crontab -l`` really means:
At 12:05 every Monday, every month, regardless of the day of the month, run the
At 12:05 every Sunday, every month, regardless of the day of the month, run the
command `copy-to-partition` in the `/home/jdoe/jobs` directory.
Let's take another example and create a cron job that checks disk space