23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
1:27 a.m.
I had never doubted that "cron" was a contraction of "chrono-".
Wikipedia, however, offered several folk acronyms on a par
with it. Brian asked Ken, who confirmed,
"cron comes from the prefix (greek?) for time.
it should have been chron, but i never could spell."
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.
Doug