From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 1 11:15: 5 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 C9F7D37B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:15:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6747 invoked by uid 1078); 1 Nov 2000 19:15:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 19:15:32 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:15:32 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow X-Sender: gordont@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com To: Sean Kelly Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! In-Reply-To: <20001101131237.A93272@edgemaster.zombie.org> 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 On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sean Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:52:14AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > >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. > > That is incorrect. The US does not operate like this. > The fallback and jump forward always occur at 2AM. This means that when we > shift back an hour, we go from 1:59AM to 1:00AM. When we jump forwadr an > hour, we go from 1:59AM to 3:00AM. There is never two 3AMs, and there can > be anywhere from one to two 1:00 and 2:00AMs. Like I said, from the top of my head =) -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message