From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 03:11:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00114 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 03:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newserv.urc.ac.ru (newserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA29904 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 03:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.RNOC-dialup.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.127]) by newserv.urc.ac.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09760 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:09:51 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <3529FB3C.C2CE565E@urc.ac.ru> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 16:09:00 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: South Ural Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [ru] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time - bug References: <3528F1B4.7BE87776@pr-comm.com> <3529F3FD.EA4D2619@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Studded wrote: > > I suggested a band-aid solution a while back, namely setting the daily > script to run at 1:59 am. That would eliminate the problem for the vast > majority of the western world minus a few european countries that do the > change from 1 to 2 am or 1:30 to 2:30. At the time I was told that > because there is no time to run the job that completely eliminates the > possibility of conflict, no change would be made. Personally I think > that kind of reasoning is nuts, but I don't get to make decisions around > here. :) > > As others have already indicated, the simplest solution at this point > is to reschedule the job locally. > Would it be correct to ask user about a hour of Daylight Savings Time transition while installing the OS from the distribution? Somewhere near Timezone Settings... Then to set up the crontab properly. -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, Joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message