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Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
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To: Michael Lea <mlea@atomicbluebear.org>
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	Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:15:26 CST."
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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





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