Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:20:32 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Message-ID: <199712142220.XAA01080@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199712100245.SAA10478@mail.san.rr.com> References: <199712100245.SAA10478@mail.san.rr.com>
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"Studded" <Studded@dal.net> wrote: >> 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? Still US-centric (or incidentally also Germany-centric :). As i wrote, last time we've been discussing it, we found that there's no agreeable time in the night period where a DST switch wouldn't be possible in some timezone of the world. Moving the problem away to another set of people is not a solution. This PR should be closed, with a reference to the PR containing the better fix (to cron). I don't have the PR # handy, sorry. -- 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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