From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 2 8:46:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0135637B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:46:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA03488; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:46:25 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda03486; Thu Nov 2 08:46:20 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.0/8.9.1) id eA2GkKs05963; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:46:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdkY5961; Thu Nov 2 08:46:01 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eA2Gk0A34790; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:46:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011021646.eA2Gk0A34790@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdZ34786; Thu Nov 2 08:45:39 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Cc: Mark Powell , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:37:25 +0200." <20001102173725.A53744@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:45:38 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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