Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow! Message-ID: <20001101135524.G10816@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011011048320.9741-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>; from gordont@bluemtn.net on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:52:14AM -0800 References: <14848.23471.506477.393246@onceler.kciLink.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011011048320.9741-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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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
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