From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 5: 5:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gallions-reach.inpharmatica.co.uk (gallions-reach.inpharmatica.co.uk [193.115.214.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0344237B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:05:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.inpharmatica.co.uk (euston.inpharmatica.co.uk [193.115.214.6]) by gallions-reach.inpharmatica.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA72797; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:03:30 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk) Received: from w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk (root@w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk [192.168.122.87]) by mailhost.inpharmatica.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0BD3Ur48177; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:03:30 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk) Received: from inpharmatica.co.uk (matthew@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25333; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:03:29 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: w-hampstead.inpharmatica.co.uk: Host matthew@localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be inpharmatica.co.uk Message-ID: <3A5DAF21.68DCD58D@inpharmatica.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:03:29 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-desktop i586) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dan@langille.org Cc: Greg Black , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) References: <20010110233907.L253@speedy.gsinet> of Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:39:07 +0100 <200101110647.TAA32661@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NU Tel: +44 20 7631 4644 x229 Fax: +44 20 7631 4844 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message