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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:53:12 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Alexander Tatmaniants <alex@UkrCard.COM>
To:        Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Daylight Savings Time - bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407134618.14581B-100000@solaric.UkrCard.COM>
In-Reply-To: <3529FB3C.C2CE565E@urc.ac.ru>

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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.
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