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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:31:19 +0200
From:      Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow!
Message-ID:  <20001102123119.E48726@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20001101205246.E83DD2FA0C@relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>; from jar@ntu-kpi.kiev.ua on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:52:46PM %2B0200
References:  <14848.23471.506477.393246@onceler.kciLink.com> <20001101205246.E83DD2FA0C@relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>

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On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:52:46PM +0200, Yaroslav Halchinsky wrote:
> Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> wrote:
> > There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed.  That is the
> > time that cron runs the daily scripts.  The current setting in
> > /etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning.  Well, last Sunday that time
> > occurred twice as we switched from daylight to standard time.  The
> > times between 1am and 3am should be avoided for any system cron jobs
> > just because of this problem.
> 
> > Could the default nightly cron job time get changed to something
> > outside of the 1am to 3am window?  The current time is just a bad
> > default.
> Here we changed from daylight time at 4:00am. So?

In Greece, we also switched from 4am to 3am. I am not sure how this works
in Spring though.

-past


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