From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 1 10:55:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96A037B4C5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:55:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from feta.isds.duke.edu (feta.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.76]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28655; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by feta.isds.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eA1ItOA12031; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sto) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <20001101135524.G10816@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Connell , Gordon Tetlow , FreeBSD stable References: <14848.23471.506477.393246@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gordont@bluemtn.net on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:52:14AM -0800 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gordon Tetlow stated: : 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- all of my daily scripts were run twice as well. s ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message