Hi Axel, On 01/04/2011 04:19 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > According to crontab(7) there's no possibility to write cronjobs which > are independent of local DST regulations if the local time of the system > uses a timezone with a DST rule. > > An elegant and backwards-compatible solution for this problem seems to > me the patch by Björn Danielsson as published on > http://widell.net/scripts/bd/dst/. > > I therefore would appreciate if this patch would be applied to Debian's > version of cron.
on that page, the link to the patch is dead: I do get the general idea though, and think it has merit. As with the other feature enhancements currently under consideration, it'll have to wait until we finally upgrade cron to 4.1, which is (still) going to take a while. Christian
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