I’m trying to add a new task to the Windows Tasks Scheduler with schtasks.exe. The problem I’m having now is to specify the day of the week at which the task should run.
From what I could find out that stupid program insists on getting that argument as string abbreviation of the day name – localized to the OS language.
Other parameters accepted the English strings just fine but supplying “SUN” on a German system doesn’t work. How can I work around that?
If it were just an issue of supporting the couple of languages the application is translated in that wouldn’t be bad. But this way I have to expect EVERY language that tool of a tool comes in…
I’m working in c# btw…
You could go over all days of the week (start with March 4th 2012, which is a Sunday, and move forward until Saturday, March 10th) and format that date using the
dddformat (short day name). That way you’ll get all 7 short day names, based on your locale.