On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:38:30PM +1000, Greg Black scribbled:
| Gerhard Sittig wrote:
| > Is there anyone out there who feels like rejecting the proposal
| > for a *reason*? Or to accept the idea, but to redirect the
| > effort to a "real solution"? I somehow doubt you'd rather
| > explain again and again that cron(8) isn't broken but that users
| > should shuffle around the daily job's execution time ...
|
| I'm opposed to the changes. Those people who live in places
| that use daylight savings time should be aware of its effect on
You see, "those people" equates to sysadmins living in
North/South America, Europe, Australia, and some other places.
| their lives and should understand that scheduling events to fall
| during the missed or repeated time at the changeover (whether by
| cron or by any other mechanism) is going to produce anomalous
| results. Therefore, the /right/ thing to do is to avoid the
| times where this problem can occur.
|
| IMO, the solution is to put a note at the top of the distributed
| /etc/crontab file suggesting that people who have DST not put
| jobs in the transition times, together with similar notes in the
| relevant man pages and in comments at the top of the files that
| are generated by crontab.
Daylight savings time is here to stay. Nobody is going to change
this for bunch of unix servers. I do not understand why people resist
change in FreeBSD so much. This does not hurt anybody.
Mr.Blacks' /etc/crontab comment idea is quite the thing
that we try to avoid in the tree.
--
Sigh, yet another bikeshed.
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