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Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric



On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:14:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > 	Please do not run personal cronjobs on auric between 14:30 and 17:30
> > > 
> > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add
> > > the timezone identifier.
> 
> I don't care what it says as long as clear and unambiguous, which it
> currently isn't (or wasn't when I last logged in).  Come on, man, throw
> us a bone.  Say "between 14:30 and 17:30 UTC-0400" or whatever.

All it needs to say is "local time", and we need know no more, for the
crontabs are understood as being in local time, right?  ;-)
And for anyone who's interested, running "date" will give us the
timezone information.

   Julian

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