Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 16:09:00 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time - bug Message-ID: <3529FB3C.C2CE565E@urc.ac.ru> References: <3528F1B4.7BE87776@pr-comm.com> <3529F3FD.EA4D2619@san.rr.com>
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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
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