Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 13:34:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, scottd@cloud9.net Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/10947: Entering daylight time at 2am loses /etc/daily (or other 2am jobs) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091329300.67572-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> In-Reply-To: <19990804103332.A25858@internal>
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OK, here's another diff that should (hopefully) be general enough for universal distribution. --- crontab Tue Aug 3 16:59:01 1999 +++ crontab.new Mon Aug 9 13:32:51 1999 @@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ 0 * * * * root newsyslog # # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance +# +# Note: if you're in one of the 70-odd countries that observe Daylight +# Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance will be +# affected. +# In general, it's not a good idea to schedule jobs during this period. +# US users (except parts of IN, AZ, and HI): the time shift occurs at +# 2AM local time. +# International users: please check /usr/src/share/zoneinfo. +# 0 2 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root Any chance you could commit this and close the PR? Thanks. SB On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Tue, 03-Aug-1999 at 20:26:51 -0400, Seth wrote: > > I'll reconfirm. I just checked w/ a friend in England, and have an email > > out to someone in Germany. England says definitely 2AM local (GMT). How > > recent is that file? > > IIRC, in Germany it is as follows: > > On the last sunday in march at 2AM local (non daylight saving) time > (== 1AM UTC) the clocks jump to 3AM local (daylight saving) time. > > On the last sunday in october at 3AM local (daylight saving) time > (== 1AM UTC) the clocks jump to 2AM local (non daylight saving) time. > > So if the u in the AT column stands for UTC it is correct. > > -Andre > > > > > > SB > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > > <<On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:48:41 -0400 (EDT), Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> said: > > > > > > > AFAIK, those European countries that observe DST (or equivalent) switch at > > > > 2AM. > > > > > > Nope. Go read /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe: > > > > > > # EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC, > > > # Common Market, etc. > > > > > > # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S > > > Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S > > > Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - > > > Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 - > > > Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - > > > Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S > > > Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - > > > > > > -GAWollman > > > > > > -- > > > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > > > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > > > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > > > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message > > -- > esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane5 ariane5.c > ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type > esa$ ./ariane5 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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