Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:16:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com, hackers@freebsd.com Subject: Re: crontab nit? Message-ID: <199704072016.NAA01981@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E0wEHXR-0000a9-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Apr 7, 97 10:45:01 am
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> : i18n question... around the world, when DST starts, what hour gets skipped? > : When it ends, what hour gets repeated? > > OpenBSD just changed the time that daily was run. There was some talk > about doing a "real" fix for "time jumps", but I've not seen that come > accross. The "real fix" was to run all jobs that needed to be run > when tehre is a time jump. Not sure that is right, but that was what > was discussed. It's right, but it's wrong. It's right that you should run all of them, but if someone has put a time-order dependent set of jobs in, and expected that it will "take no more than an hour, so I don't have to enforce ordering except by time in crontab", then running all of them won't result in the expected output. ...though there's no denying that time-order dependencies handled through cron time-ordering instead of a linear scripting smacks of weenie-hood. It seems that the best fix is to run all of them, and supply a "documentation fix" for the man page... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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