From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 8 23:30:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08470 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08461; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:30:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712090730.XAA08461@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR conf/5254; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: rone@bofh.noc.best.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 08:18:07 +0100 (MET) Ron Echeverri wrote: > /etc/daily gets run at 02:00. This is a problem when we move to > Daylight Savings Time. This has been discussed before. You'll have a hard time finding any time in the night hours that wouldn't potentially be in the DST switchover range somewhere. (Yeah, there's more things on earth than just the US. ;-) The correct thing to do is teaching cron about DST switches. Patches for this were floating around, offhand i'm not sure whether there's an open PR for this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)