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Subject: Re: bin/22954: cron isn't daylight savings-aware
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On 19 Nov, Doug Barton wrote:
> "H. ICHIKAWA" wrote:
>> 
>> Your tell me not to schedule cron jobs during that time period,
>> when the stock FreeBSD root crontab violates this principle.  hmm..
> 
> 	Your PR actually reminded me to commit a change to /etc/crontab to
> avoid just this issue, although presently it runs daily twice in the
> fall, and once in the spring which is better than once in the fall and
> never in spring (for regions that do the DST change at 2am anyway). 
> 
Doug,
    could you be so kind as to post the patch to bugs, or perhaps
make it available via ftp or http? So some of us could make 
the fixes on older systems.

					Thanks
					



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