From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 9 18:44:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA03979 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA03974 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from studded@san.rr.com) Received: (from studded@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA10478; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:45:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712100245.SAA10478@mail.san.rr.com> From: "Studded" To: "freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org" , "J Wunsch" Date: Tue, 09 Dec 97 18:43:37 -0800 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: conf/5254: patch for /usr/src/etc/crontab Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:30:01 -0800 (PST), J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Wouldn't running it at 01:59 work? When you're springing forward, it gets run right before the magic hour, when you fall back it gets run twice. I don't see where running it twice once a year (for those who do the change at 02:00) is that big a loss. :) Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,297 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***