Subject: Re: Change time for /etc/daily
To: Marc Baudoin <Marc.Baudoin@solsoft.com>
From: Luke Mewburn <lm@cs.rmit.edu.au>
List: tech-misc
Date: 10/27/1997 00:39:38
Marc Baudoin writes:
> Hi,
> 
> this night, we, French people, had the opportunity to spleep one
> more hour because we switched from daylight saving time to winter
> time.  So, at 3 o' clock in the morning, it was 2 o' clock again.
> 
> But my NetBSD 1.2 system was not asleep and it executed its
> /etc/daily two times (one time at 2 o' clock and another time at
> 3^H2 o' clock again) and, of course, I got its e-mail reports two
> times.  By the way, FreeBSD has the same problem.
> 
> That's no big deal but I think most European countries have the
> same problem and it would be great if the standard /etc/daily
> was run at another time, say 1 o' clock.
> 
> What do you think?  It would be adequate for NetBSD 1.3 to run
> its /etc/daily a little earlier or a little later to avoid this
> kind of problem.

I've fixed this in the default crontab on the `trunk', and asked
for a pullup to the 1.3 branch. So, whilst it's a moot point for
today, it should be fixed in 1.3 for next March.