Date: Tue, 09 Dec 97 18:43:37 -0800 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org" <freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org>, "J Wunsch" <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Message-ID: <199712100245.SAA10478@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:30:01 -0800 (PST), J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Wouldn't running it at 01:59 work? When you're springing forward, it gets run right before the magic hour, when you fall back it gets run twice. I don't see where running it twice once a year (for those who do the change at 02:00) is that big a loss. :) Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,297 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***
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