Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:48:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/10947: Entering daylight time at 2am loses /etc/daily (or other 2am jobs) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908031734110.42348-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> In-Reply-To: <199908032130.RAA04729@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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AFAIK, those European countries that observe DST (or equivalent) switch at 2AM. Are there countries (of the 70 that observe it) that don't? In any case, here's a patch that makes things a bit clearer: --- crontab Tue Aug 3 16:59:01 1999 +++ crontab.new Tue Aug 3 17:48:05 1999 @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ 0 * * * * root newsyslog # # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance +# Note: if you're in one of the 70-odd countries that observe Daylight +# Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance will be +# affected. (In the US, Europe, Russia, and Australia, the time changes +# at 2AM.) +# In general, it's not a good idea to schedule jobs during this period. +# +# 0 2 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root Thanks, SB On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT), Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> said: > > > +# Note that any jobs scheduled for 2AM will be affected twice a year if your > > +# system is set to observe Daylight Savings Time. > > +# > > Only in countries which switch at that time. > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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