Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:48:46 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001102182517.26357B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20001101120230.A43030@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:06:39PM -0500, 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. > > Does 03:10 work for everyone? That would work in Australia. Got caught again with our 2.2 system just last Sunday, which jumped from 2 to 3am, skipping the run of /etc/daily. Unlike the US which goes 2->3am in spring and 2->1am in fall, as someone said it went, here we go 2->3am in spring but 3->2am in autumn :-) I'd be as happy with more like 5:05am though. There'll always be some place where people will have to move daily elsewhere, but that should suit most - and as someone else pointed out, many of us are nightowls .. Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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