Date: 03 Apr 2000 13:19:37 -0500 From: Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time Message-ID: <86ya6v59om.fsf@polo.overx.com> In-Reply-To: Vivek Khera's message of "Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:31:58 -0400 (EDT)" References: <14568.45040.795743.139682@kci.kciLink.com> <200004031510.LAB21697@radagast.wizard.net> <14568.47470.412562.32287@kci.kciLink.com>
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Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> writes: > >>>>> "DRT" == Donald R Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> writes: > > DRT> At least the 4.0-STABLE side, despite the error reported by > DRT> several on this list, managed to get the time right. > > The error is in the date program's ability to tell you the time X > hours ago, when that X is during the leap-ahead hour. I consider this > a bug in date, as my example showed. The time exists, date just can't > tell you what it is. Also, I noticed that cron doesn't handle the leap-hour case. Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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