> >The FreeBSD folk are absolutely adamant about having mktime() no > >compensate for deadzones between DST shifts and they insist that > >the application handle this. Someone's off looking at how other > >OS'es handle this, but this could be an arduous battle on that > >front. <:~) > > Personally I'd like to see FreeBSD do away with this strange > behaviour. It cause my grief because certaint hings *MUST* be done > at 0200 every day in our system, I was forced to do them manually > recently, shifing several hours of work into daytime which had to be > paused and bulked into the next days work. I realise that this is > getting off track but it just points out that the FreeBSD behaviour > is IMHO WRONG. It causes applications to fail in an unexpected and > odd way. > > I'm not objecting to pg patching for it (no choice at the moment) > but I hope the pg team 'officially' puts a little pressure on the > BSD folk to make this behave as expected.
Feel free to read over their arguments (archive may not be 100% up to date): http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2002/freebsd-standards/20020414.freebsd-standards.html > I don't have any compliance docs at the moment, but this strikes me > as somewhat out of spec personally. ::shrug:: I've gotten enough push back to have an indifferent opinion: I just want to see PG work w/ some of the bogus data I get every now and then. :~) -sc -- Sean Chittenden ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
