Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:45:38 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Cc: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <200011021646.eA2Gk0A34790@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:37:25 %2B0200." <20001102173725.A53744@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>
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In message <20001102173725.A53744@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>, Panagiotis Astithas wri tes: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:03:35AM +0000, Mark Powell wrote: > > > In Greece, we also switched from 4am to 3am. I am not sure how this works > > > in Spring though. > > > > Kalimera, > > All of the EU is supposed to change at 1am UTC. In Mar this will be > > 3am->4am in Greece. > > Ya sou > > This makes perfect sense, since the summer time in Greece is GMT+3 and the > winter time is GMT+2. But since the periodic scripts run with respect to > local time, I'm afraid we can't reach an easy consensus here. Running > periodic at 1:59 am is fine for Greece. If we move it to 3:59 am we will > have a problem. If we move it to 5:59 am I suppose somebody in the timezone > GMT+5 will be in trouble next year. > Perhaps the crontab entry should be computed by sysinstall when specifying > the timezone? Excellent idea! I was thinking just that in the shower this morning. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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