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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:45:25 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Post DST changes
Message-ID:  <20070312194525.GB4360@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <54db43990703121100k1be31052m19cad6acef12f6c1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200703121231.l2CCVN1d017433@lava.sentex.ca> <54db43990703121100k1be31052m19cad6acef12f6c1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Bob Johnson wrote:
>On 3/12/07, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:
>>I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST
>>change this weekend.  On all the boxes, it seems setup OK
>[...]
>>yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !?
>>
>>if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel entry, but not
>>for other applications. They all seem to log the time one hour back.
>>Most applications seem this way.  On my more recent boxes this didnt
>>happen, but for some legacy RELENG_4 and older RELENG_5 and RELENG_6
>>boxes, the same odd behavior.
>
>Restart any programs that aren't picking up the time change.

Probably the most important of these is cron as the major effect with many
other programs would be to have bogus entries in log files.

Bill
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