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| author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-28 22:48:00 +0000 |
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| committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-28 22:48:00 +0000 |
| commit | f26417e87c8113034d4e5c011f2e2e8eeda66feb (patch) | |
| tree | 47915324127ce9624a8e29bcc409d9da871eeb93 /usr.sbin | |
| parent | 39e5694debdbee3554ec22caab92fbe4a1d6cf60 (diff) | |
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As cron(8) is started with '-s' by default, timezones that observe
DST should not need to worry about scheduling jobs when the DST time
changes.
Rather than removing the BUGS section in crontab(5) regarding this,
note that disabling '-s' may still cause jobs to be executed twice or
not at all.
PR: 166318
Submitted by: Florian k Unglaub (f.unglaub%googlemail!com)
MFC After: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 index 65b5631..458175e 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 28, 2012 +.Dd April 28, 2012 .Dt CRONTAB 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -296,10 +296,21 @@ are extensions. .An Paul Vixie Aq paul@vix.com .Sh BUGS If you are in one of the 70-odd countries that observe Daylight -Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance will be -affected. +Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance may be +affected if +.Xr cron 8 +is not started with the +.Fl s +flag. In general, it is not a good idea to schedule jobs during -this period. +this period if +.Xr cron 8 +is not started with the +.Fl s +flag, which is enabled by default. +See +.Xr cron 8 +for more details. .Pp For US timezones (except parts of AZ and HI) the time shift occurs at 2AM local time. |
