Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 06:30:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: "James E. Housley" <housley@pr-comm.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time - bug Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407062926.4417B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <3529F3FD.EA4D2619@san.rr.com>
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Studded wrote: > James E. Housley wrote: > I suggested a band-aid solution a while back, namely setting the daily > script to run at 1:59 am. That would eliminate the problem for the vast > majority of the western world minus a few european countries that do the > change from 1 to 2 am or 1:30 to 2:30. At the time I was told that > because there is no time to run the job that completely eliminates the > possibility of conflict, no change would be made. Personally I think > that kind of reasoning is nuts, but I don't get to make decisions around > here. :) I personally like the idea of having cron scripts run based on UTC... no need to worry about DST, just the occasionaly leap second to throw you off ;) -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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