Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:03:29 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk> To: dan@langille.org Cc: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) Message-ID: <3A5DAF21.68DCD58D@inpharmatica.co.uk> References: <20010110233907.L253@speedy.gsinet> of Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:39:07 %2B0100 <200101110647.TAA32661@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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Dan Langille wrote:
>
> On 11 Jan 2001, at 16:33, Greg Black wrote:
>
> > We'd need some guarantees that the attempt to maintain current
> > behaviour was done correctly -- i.e., without introducing bugs
> > that broke things.
>
> What sort of guarantees are acceptable?
>
> > In the beginning, something like CRON_DST_HACK="NO" in rc.conf
> > with a comment pointing to the explanation should cover both
> > these items. If more is needed later, then it can be added.
>
> Do you mean /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
>
Howabout having a setting:
TZ=GMT0BST
or
TZ=Europe/London
in the crontab file, analogous to the MAILTO= or USER= settings that already
exist. That would mean individual user crontabs could run on different
timezones --- or would that just be too complicated?
I suppose the default (with no TZ= setting) should be to work just as cron
does now, using the system standard timezone, without DST hacks, or you could
choose a timezone setting without DST changes:
TZ=UTC
and probably
TZ=localtime
to use the system default time zone, with DST hacks.
Matthew
PS. If anyone is counting, put me down as one who thinks the DST hack is a
good idea.
--
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