Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:30:01 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Message-ID: <199712090730.XAA08461@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/5254; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: rone@bofh.noc.best.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 08:18:07 +0100 (MET) Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> wrote: > /etc/daily gets run at 02:00. This is a problem when we move to > Daylight Savings Time. This has been discussed before. You'll have a hard time finding any time in the night hours that wouldn't potentially be in the DST switchover range somewhere. (Yeah, there's more things on earth than just the US. ;-) The correct thing to do is teaching cron about DST switches. Patches for this were floating around, offhand i'm not sure whether there's an open PR for this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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