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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:40:36 -0200 (BRST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/31291: newsyslog dealing with daylight savings time
Message-ID:  <200110151640.f9FGeak72248@roma.coe.ufrj.br>

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>Number:         31291
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       newsyslog dealing with daylight savings time
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 15 09:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
COPPE/UFRJ
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD roma.coe.ufrj.br 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 20 20:35:05 BRT 2001 jonny@roma.coe.ufrj.br:/usr/cvsup/RELENG_4/src/sys/compile/ROMA i386


	FreeBSD 4.4-stable

>Description:

Default newsyslog.conf includes the following line:

/var/log/maillog                        644  7     *    @T00  Z

When the local region enters daylight savings time, the first day
does not have the first hour, so such hour is invalid.

I suppose a similar problem will happen at daylight savings end.

>How-To-Repeat:

Simulate a first day of a daylight savings station, and run newsyslog.

>Fix:

Options:

- Fix newsyslog to detect daylight savings start/end.

- Fix mktime(3) to return a specific error for daylight savings
  time inexistence.

- As a simple and dirty workaround, just change newsyslog.conf.  ;-)

Sorry no patches.

>Release-Note:
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