Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:43:56AM -0800, Glenn Faden wrote: > >> Jan Parcel wrote: >> >>> 2. Basing the decision to copy upon diffs rather than date. >>> >> I don't understand the advantage of diff vs. -newer. The latter is >> simpler so why not use it? My suggested workaround also deals with the >> case where the copy doesn't exist yet. >> > > One reason to not use a timestamp is to avoid issues with any future fix > for the RFE that zones' clocks should be able to have time offsets > w.r.t. the global zone. > > Nico > Since the proposed cron job code only executes in the global zone. the zone clock issue isn't relevant.
--Glenn
