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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:19:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, <huntting@glarp.com>
Subject:   Re: changing timezones
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106061118150.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <200106050250.f552oJC34814@earth.backplane.com>

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On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:

>     I think you missed the original article.  The idea was to try to
>     have a running programming automatically detect the timezone change
>     and adjust its internal state accordingly.  Doing that automatically
>     without the programming knowing isn't a good idea.
>
>     Adding code to sendmail, syslogd, cron, etc... to detect the change
>     at a safe point, on the otherhand, might be interesting.  But,
>     ultimately, I think it would be kind of a waste of programming
>     hours to do.

It would be really interesting when it came to processing your logs with a
TZ shift in them as well. cron is a special case (and has been discussed
ad nauseum before) as it's business is to keep track of time.

-gordon


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