Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:00:33 -0800 (PST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/58557: Summer/Winter-time change causes daily cron to be run twice Message-ID: <200310261800.h9QI0Xkh039718@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/58557; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Linus Sjoberg <lsjoberg@aland.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/58557: Summer/Winter-time change causes daily cron to be run twice Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:58:28 -0500 (EST) <<On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:39:06 +0200 (EET), Linus Sjoberg <lsjoberg@aland.net> said: > When the timezone automagically changes from EEST to EET the periodical > daily scripts get run twice. This results in receiving 2 copies of all > email reports, and all other utility scripts getting run twice. We have tried to find a happy medium. There is, unfortunately, no hour of the night which does not suffer from this problem somewhere in the world. We have tried to err on the side of caution (making sure that periodic scripts run *at least* once) rather than allowing them to possibly fail to run in some jurisdictions. -GAWollman
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