From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 1 10:51:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [192.215.234.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 160E637B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16380 invoked by uid 1078); 1 Nov 2000 18:52:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 18:52:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow X-Sender: gordont@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com To: Vivek Khera Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! In-Reply-To: <14848.23471.506477.393246@onceler.kciLink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello there... On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed. That is the > time that cron runs the daily scripts. The current setting in > /etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning. Well, last Sunday that time > occurred twice as we switched from daylight to standard time. The > times between 1am and 3am should be avoided for any system cron jobs > just because of this problem. From what I recall (off the top of my head no less) is that the time change in the fall occurs at 3am [ECMP]DT and jumps back to 2am [ECMP]ST. In the spring, at 2am it jumps to 3am. 1:59am will reliably occur once every day of the year. At least that is how it is done in the US. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message