From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 04:18:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA09699 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 04:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from solaric.UkrCard.COM (ukrcard-gu.gu.net [194.93.170.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA09653 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 04:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@UkrCard.COM) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by solaric.UkrCard.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA24522; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:53:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from alex@solaric.UkrCard.COM) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:53:12 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Tatmaniants To: Konstantin Chuguev cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time - bug In-Reply-To: <3529FB3C.C2CE565E@urc.ac.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > 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. Possibly cron would obtain this information from /etc/localtime at startup for example. > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message