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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/10947: Problems entering daylight time
Message-ID:  <199904052200.PAA82125@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/10947; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To: scottd@cloud9.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/10947: Problems entering daylight time
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 23:52:11 +0200

 scottd@cloud9.net wrote:
 > 
 > Daylight time (at least in the US) begins at 2am.  By default, /etc/daily runs
 > at 2am, so when the clock changes from 01:59 to 03:00, any cron jobs set to
 > run at the 2am hour will get skipped.  Every n minute jobs get skipped also,
 > but that isn't as bad as having something that specifically runs at the 2am
 > hour getting lost.
 > 
 
 This problem also affects to all the European Union. I vote for
 moving forward the start time of the "daily" scripts.
 
 -- JMA
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