Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

[Greg Black]

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
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.


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