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Date:      03 Apr 2000 13:19:37 -0500
From:      Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time
Message-ID:  <86ya6v59om.fsf@polo.overx.com>
In-Reply-To: Vivek Khera's message of "Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:31:58 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <14568.45040.795743.139682@kci.kciLink.com> <200004031510.LAB21697@radagast.wizard.net> <14568.47470.412562.32287@kci.kciLink.com>

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Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> writes:

> >>>>> "DRT" == Donald R Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
> 
> DRT> At least the 4.0-STABLE side, despite the error reported by
> DRT> several on this list, managed to get the time right.
> 
> The error is in the date program's ability to tell you the time X
> hours ago, when that X is during the leap-ahead hour.  I consider this
> a bug in date, as my example showed.  The time exists, date just can't
> tell you what it is.

Also, I noticed that cron doesn't handle the leap-hour case.

Soren


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