Re: cron has gone to UTC time?
On 10 Feb 1999, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> But it doesn't stay that way all the time when you upgrade timezones.
> Happened to me yesterday.
>
> I think this counts as a timezones bug.
>
> Scenario:
>
> unpack cron
> unpack timezones - this deletes (!!) /etc/timezone
> setup cron - cron is now at UTC
> setup timezones - a correct /etc/timezone is recreated
>
> This means that during a timezones upgrade, there is a window when the
> system is running under UTC. During a mass upgrade, this window can be
> fairly long.
Ahhh!!!
If this is the case then yes, that explains everything. I also think this
is a very serious problem, timezones should not do that :<
Can we fix it for slink please?
Jason
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