When you schedule a weekly task on a specified day with SAS Job Flow Scheduler in a non-grid environment, the day that is actually scheduled in cron is a day later than expected. For example, Sunday in crontab is day 0, but SAS Job Flow Scheduler uses day 1 instead. Other days are similarly off by one.

You can verify that you are affected by this issue with the following steps:

1. Deploy a new flow to SAS Job Flow Scheduler.
2. Schedule the flow with a recurrence of Weekly. Select the interval day as Sunday.
3. Review the crontab -l output on the scheduling server, typically the compute environment.
4. The cron job should be listed in this format: minutes hours * * 0 job command.
   
   However, if you are impacted by this issue, you see that the crontab is scheduled with a 1 (for Monday) in the day field instead of the 0 (for Sunday) that you expect to see.

Workaround

You can work around this issue by using the command crontab -e -u user-name to manually edit the crontab to use the correct day.

A hot fix is planned for this issue.

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