Peter, thanks for the quick reply ... I appreciate that.. I suggested the same and they dont want it that way. All I need is to set it to a particular day ... say .. ask the scheduler to run every monday or tuesday... They say they want it that way so that they can change it with ease and also monitor only on that particular day of the week...so i dont think I can use the date format... Have you any idea ?? I tried to find a sol. ...and I couldn't View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4113496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...