From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 3 14:51: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D08914CEA for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id RAA00970; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:49:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma000807; Tue, 3 Aug 99 17:48:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:48:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Subject: Re: conf/10947: Entering daylight time at 2am loses /etc/daily (or other 2am jobs) In-reply-to: <199908032130.RAA04729@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org AFAIK, those European countries that observe DST (or equivalent) switch at 2AM. Are there countries (of the 70 that observe it) that don't? In any case, here's a patch that makes things a bit clearer: --- crontab Tue Aug 3 16:59:01 1999 +++ crontab.new Tue Aug 3 17:48:05 1999 @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ 0 * * * * root newsyslog # # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance +# Note: if you're in one of the 70-odd countries that observe Daylight +# Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance will be +# affected. (In the US, Europe, Russia, and Australia, the time changes +# at 2AM.) +# In general, it's not a good idea to schedule jobs during this period. +# +# 0 2 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root Thanks, SB On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > +# Note that any jobs scheduled for 2AM will be affected twice a year if your > > +# system is set to observe Daylight Savings Time. > > +# > > Only in countries which switch at that time. > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message