From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 20:38:37 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 20:38:35 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B3C937B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:38:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19916 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jan 2001 14:38:30 +1000 X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 2.07 04-Dec-2000 X-URL: http://www.gbch.net X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/img/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-pgpkey.asc Message-Id: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:38:30 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) References: <200011191816.KAA81473@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001119214008.Z27042@speedy.gsinet> <20001120143658.B4415@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <20001120193326.C27042@speedy.gsinet> <20001205225656.Z27042@speedy.gsinet> <20001220211548.T253@speedy.gsinet> <3A513799.75EAB470@FreeBSD.org> <20010102133239.V253@speedy.gsinet> In-reply-to: <20010102133239.V253@speedy.gsinet> of Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:32:39 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerhard Sittig wrote: > Is there anyone out there who feels like rejecting the proposal > for a *reason*? Or to accept the idea, but to redirect the > effort to a "real solution"? I somehow doubt you'd rather > explain again and again that cron(8) isn't broken but that users > should shuffle around the daily job's execution time ... I'm opposed to the changes. Those people who live in places that use daylight savings time should be aware of its effect on their lives and should understand that scheduling events to fall during the missed or repeated time at the changeover (whether by cron or by any other mechanism) is going to produce anomalous results. Therefore, the /right/ thing to do is to avoid the times where this problem can occur. IMO, the solution is to put a note at the top of the distributed /etc/crontab file suggesting that people who have DST not put jobs in the transition times, together with similar notes in the relevant man pages and in comments at the top of the files that are generated by crontab. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message