Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:42:17 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Michael Lea <mlea@atomicbluebear.org> Cc: Bohdan Tashchuk <tashchuk@easystreet.com>, Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <200011040443.eA44h9E65294@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:15:26 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011031112310.65456-100000@core.atomicbluebear.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011031112310.65456-100000@core.atomicbluebear .org>, Michael Lea writes: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: > > > Also for some silly reason I thought that the OpenBSD people might be > > "smarter" about this. But no, their daily script runs at 1:30 and so > > probably has the very same problem. > > The OpenBSD people *are* smarter about this. From the OpenBSD man page for > cron(8): > Special considerations exist when the clock is changed by less than 3 > hours; for example, at the beginning and end of Daylight Saving Time. If > the time has moved forward, those jobs which would have run in the time > that was skipped will be run soon after the change. Conversely, if the > time has moved backward by less than 3 hours, those jobs that fall into > the repeated time will not be run. This is cool. Let's do it. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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