From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 11:20: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from everest.overx.com (everest.overx.com [63.93.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DAC37B680 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dayton@overx.com) Received: from polo.overx.com (polo.overx.com [63.93.29.12]) by everest.overx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DD11FED; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:19:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: by polo.overx.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E066E3F32; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:19:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Soren Dayton Reply-To: dayton+freebsd-stable@overx.com To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time References: <14568.45040.795743.139682@kci.kciLink.com> <200004031510.LAB21697@radagast.wizard.net> <14568.47470.412562.32287@kci.kciLink.com> Date: 03 Apr 2000 13:19:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: Vivek Khera's message of "Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:31:58 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <86ya6v59om.fsf@polo.overx.com> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera writes: > >>>>> "DRT" == Donald R Tyson 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