hi,
here is what i see in the man page of crontab.5:
"Lines whose first non-white space character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are note processed."
i think it should be something like this:
"Lines whose first non-white space character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are not processed."
pay attention to the penultimate word of the sentence.
i have attached a git patch for your convenience.
best regards,