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. > > 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
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