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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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